IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (Jan 2018)

Ventricular fibrillation followed by the augmentation of Brugada-like electrocardiographic changes caused by ischemia of the conus branch in a patient with coronary artery disease

  • Yasutsugu Nagamoto,
  • Yuto Fujii,
  • Yuichi Morita,
  • Yusuke Ueda,
  • Kenichi Yamane,
  • Yasuko Miyake,
  • Mai Fujiwara,
  • Shinji Mito,
  • Yuichiro Watari,
  • Hiromichi Tamekiyo,
  • Tomokazu Okimoto,
  • Yuji Muraoka,
  • Yasuhiko Hayashi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 58 – 60

Abstract

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A 64 year-old man underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and the conus branch was occluded. Ventricular fibrillation (VF) occurred five hours after the PCI procedure with a Brugada-like electrocardiogram. A continuous injection of amiodarone was effective for the suppression of VF.

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