A 50-years-old man with severe heart failure was diagnosed to have congestive cardiomyopathy and low atrial tachycardia at a fixed rate of 103 bpm. Conventional therapy for heart failure exerted a beneficial effect but complete clinical improvement was achieved only by reducing the rate of low atrial tachycardia with amiodarone. This suggests that in this situation tachycardia itself played a main role in the genesis of hemodynamic derangement.
Low atrial tachycardia as primary cause of the heart failure complicating congestive cardiomyopathy / R., Antonelli Incalzi; A., Gemma; Frustaci, Andrea; E., Rossi; P. U., Carbonin. - In: ACTA CARDIOLOGICA. - ISSN 0001-5385. - STAMPA. - 44:4(1989), pp. 335-339.
Low atrial tachycardia as primary cause of the heart failure complicating congestive cardiomyopathy.
FRUSTACI, ANDREA;
1989
Abstract
A 50-years-old man with severe heart failure was diagnosed to have congestive cardiomyopathy and low atrial tachycardia at a fixed rate of 103 bpm. Conventional therapy for heart failure exerted a beneficial effect but complete clinical improvement was achieved only by reducing the rate of low atrial tachycardia with amiodarone. This suggests that in this situation tachycardia itself played a main role in the genesis of hemodynamic derangement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.