[Torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia in idiopathic QT syndrome: successful treatment with AAI pacing].

A 30-year-old woman with an idiopathic long QT-syndrome developed recurrent episodes of torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia. Therapy with beta blocking agents and exhairesis of the left ganglion stellatum had failed to suppress these life-threatening tachyarrhythmias. After implantation of an AAI pacemaker system these ventricular arrhythmias disappeared. The patient remained without ventricular arrhythmias up to the time of discharge and during a 5 months' follow-up.