Ventricular Tachycardia in a Patient with Primary Hyperparathyroidism |
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| Authors: | CHIEN-JUNG CHANG SHIH-ANN CHEN CHING-TAI TAI WEN-CHUNG YU YI-JEN CHEN CHIN-FENG TSAI MING-HSIUNG HSIEH YU-AN DING MAU-SONG CHANG |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, and Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
We present a case of primary hyperparathyroidism with hypercalcemia in a patient who had spontaneous attacks of ventricular tachycardia. Right ventricular burst pacing reproducibly induced ventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiological laboratory after intravenous administration of calcium-gluconate, and verapamil could terminate the tachycardia. After resection of the parathyroid adenoma, the calcium level was restored to normal, and ventricular tachycardia did not occur again during the follow-up period, |
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| Keywords: | ventricular tachycardia hypercalcemia primary hyperparathyroidism |
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