Life-threatening torsade de pointes arrhythmia associated with head injury

Torsade de pointes (atypical ventricular tachycardia) occurred in a 75-year-old man 1 day after blunt head injury, in association with a focal intracerebral hematoma in the left thalamic area. The causal relationship between the traumatic stimulation of the left sympathetic pathway and the developme...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Neurosurgery 1988-07, Vol.23 (1), p.89-92
Hauptverfasser:	ROTEM, M, CONSTANTINI, S, SHIR, Y, COTEV, S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Biological and medical sciences Brain Injuries - complications Brain Injuries - diagnostic imaging Brain Injuries - physiopathology Cerebral Hemorrhage - complications Heart Ventricles - physiopathology Hematoma - complications Humans Injuries of the nervous system and the skull. Diseases due to physical agents Lidocaine - therapeutic use Male Medical sciences Tachycardia - drug therapy Tachycardia - etiology Thalamus Tomography, X-Ray Computed Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
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Zusammenfassung:	Torsade de pointes (atypical ventricular tachycardia) occurred in a 75-year-old man 1 day after blunt head injury, in association with a focal intracerebral hematoma in the left thalamic area. The causal relationship between the traumatic stimulation of the left sympathetic pathway and the development of this life-threatening arrhythmia is discussed.
ISSN:	0148-396X 1524-4040
DOI:	10.1227/00006123-198807000-00015