We report a rare clinical presentation of incessant idiopathic fascicular ventricular tachycardia (FVT), presenting as multi-organ dysfunction (MOD) syndrome with cardiogenic shock. Our patient was a 19-year-old male who presented with slowly progressive dyspnea from New York Heart Association (NYHA) II to NYHA IV at the time of presentation, palpitations, and dilated cardiomyopathy due to drug-refractory FVT. The patient was in cardiogenic shock with raised central venous pressures and required inotropic support for maintaining systolic blood pressure above 90 mmHg.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsolated single coronary artery without other congenital cardiac anomalies is very rare among the different variations of anomalous coronary patterns. The prognosis in patients with single coronary varies according to the anatomic distribution and associated coronary atherosclerosis. If the left main coronary artery travels between the aorta and pulmonary arteries, it may be a cause of sudden cardiac death.
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