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Ten-year-old boy with congenital long QT syndrome type 2 (LQTS2) and life-threatening electrical storm: a case report of successful treatment with mexiletine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2022
Abstract
We present a case of a boy with long QT syndrome type 2, who was admitted after an out of hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. Subsequently, all treatments – intravenous magnesium, optimisation of electrolytes, an isoproterenol infusion – failed to terminate his electrical storm. As a last option before left-sided cardiac sympathetic denervation, mexiletine was started and the electrical storm resolved completely.
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