Electrophysiological Twisting: Electrical Alternans in Congenital Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2017 Feb;10(2):e004953. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.116.004953.

Authors

Rimsha Arif¹, Arif Hussain¹, Santokh Dhillon²

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, IWK Heart Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
² From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, IWK Heart Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada santokh.dhillon@iwk.nshealth.ca.

PMID: 28148547
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.116.004953

No abstract available

Keywords: arrhythmia; cardiomyopathy; echocardiography; electrocardiography; hypokalemia; mitral valve; ventricular dysfunction.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Action Potentials
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / drug therapy
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology*
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / physiopathology
Cardiomyopathies / congenital
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / congenital*
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / diagnosis
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / physiopathology
Echocardiography, Doppler
Electrocardiography
Electron Transport Complex III / deficiency
Heart Rate* / drug effects
Humans
Hypokalemia / complications*
Hypokalemia / diagnosis
Hypokalemia / drug therapy
Hypokalemia / physiopathology
Infant, Newborn
Male
Potassium / administration & dosage

Substances

Electron Transport Complex III
Potassium

Supplementary concepts

Cardiomyopathy, infantile histiocytoid