A case of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia during pregnancy |
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Authors: | T Kinugawa Y Fujimoto H Miyakoda K Ogino C Shigemasa J Hasegawa H Kotake H Mashiba |
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Affiliation: | First Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We report a case of a 37-year-old woman who had paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia (VT) during early pregnancy. She had severe hyperemesis, palpitation at 6 weeks of gestation and many episodes of paroxysmal VT, but no apparent organic heart disease. At that time she had a transient increase of thyroid hormone levels. With bed rest and without medication, her symptoms and episodes of VT disappeared in accordance with the improvement of hyperemesis and thyrotoxicosis. She demonstrated a rare course of arrhythmias in which the deterioration of VT was observed at transient thyrotoxicosis and hyperemesis. |
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