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Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia Associated with Influenza Syndrome in a Young Girl—A Case Report

Western Heart Institute, St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, California, Seton Medical Center, Daly City, California, University of California, San Francisco, California

Steven Wald

Western Heart Institute, St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, California, Seton Medical Center, Daly City, California, University of California, San Francisco, California

Ventricular arrhythmias in children with no demonstrable heart disease are rare. In a thirteen-year-old girl, a typical influenza syndrome was complicated by sustained ventricular tachycardia. Exercise tests, echocardiography, electrophysiological studies, and endomyocardial biopsy were negative. Viremia, fever, or medications may be responsible for this unusual complication.

Angiology, Vol. 38, No. 4, 338-341 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/000331978703800408


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