Khiatah Bashar, Dukes Jonathan, Desai Christina, Frugoli Amanda
Department of Internal Medicine, Community Memorial Hospital, 147 N Brent St, Ventura, CA 93003, USA.
Electrophysiology, Cardiology Associate Medical Group, USA.
Case Rep Cardiol. 2020 Jul 23;2020:8889769. doi: 10.1155/2020/8889769. eCollection 2020.
This report describes a case of an electrical storm of Torsades De Pointes in a structurally normal heart, following an H1N1 infection in the presence of a genetic variant of unknown significance. The patient was successfully treated with isoproterenol. This case highlights the dilemma of evaluating novel genetic testing results in a clinical setting.
本报告描述了一例在结构正常的心脏中发生尖端扭转型室速电风暴的病例,该病例发生在甲型H1N1感染后,同时存在一种意义不明的基因变异。患者通过异丙肾上腺素成功治愈。该病例凸显了在临床环境中评估新型基因检测结果时所面临的困境。