Cardiac Arrest in a Young Woman: A Near Miss Diagnosis.
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrhythmias
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
Critical care
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
RYR2 gene
Journal
The American journal of emergency medicine
ISSN: 1532-8171
Titre abrégé: Am J Emerg Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8309942
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2022
10 2022
Historique:
received:
28
06
2022
accepted:
10
07
2022
pubmed:
22
7
2022
medline:
28
9
2022
entrez:
21
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a rare channelopathy involving cardiac calcium metabolism that often shows up at an early age with misleading clinical symptoms such as emotion or exercise-related syncope with a normal resting ECG, however, if misdiagnosed, CPVT can lead to cardiac arrest in children or young adults. We describe the case of a 27-year-old woman with several misdiagnosed syncopal episodes leading to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Her previous medical history, combined with automatic external defibrillator records (AED) and clinical data, strongly suggested the diagnosis of CPVT. Thus beta blocker therapy was immediately started and targeted genetic test undertaken, revealing a previously unreported heterozygous variant in the ryanodine receptor-2 (RYR2) gene.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35863979
pii: S0735-6757(22)00451-X
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.07.016
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel
0
Calcium
SY7Q814VUP
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
226.e1-226.e4Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest None for authors.