Abstract
An elderly lady presented with breathlessness, fever and palpitations. She was treated for community-acquired pneumonia with antibiotics. Subsequently, she went into acute pulmonary edema. She was managed with standard heart failure medications and a trial of noninvasive ventilation. ECG showed A-V sequential pacing at a rate of 150/min with broad QRS. It was thought to be a pacemaker-related tachycardia. On pacemaker check, a special algorithm (atrial fibrillation suppression algorithm) was switched off. She subsequently improved. We here review the cause of this tachycardia-induced cardiomyoapthy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 573-6 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Cardiology journal |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Aged, 80 and over
- Algorithms
- Cardiomyopathies/diagnosis
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Humans
- Pacemaker, Artificial/adverse effects
- Pneumonia/complications
- Prosthesis Design
- Sick Sinus Syndrome/therapy
- Tachycardia, Supraventricular/diagnosis
- Treatment Outcome