atrial flutter/fever

Brugada syndrome is one of the important causes of sudden cardiac death in young adults. The condition is associated with typical ECG changes in anteroseptal leads V1 and V2 that can be unmasked by various medications, electrolyte disturbances, and even by fever in susceptible individuals. We here

A 38 year old gentleman presented with fever and right hypochondrial pain. On further evaluation he was detected to have an amoebic liver abscess (ALA) in the right lobe of the liver. The abscess yielded anchovy sauce pus on percutaneous drainage. Following the percutaneous drainage the patient

Acute limb ischemia related to Coxiella burnetii endocarditis is rare. We report an original case of a 68-year-old man hospitalized for recurrent acute left limb ischemia in a context of atrial flutter, which revealed C. burnetii endocarditis. This case illustrates that even if embolic events are

Although central nervous system complications occasionally accompany during the acute phase of Kawasaki disease, clinically problematic arrhythmia is quite rare. We report a case accompanied by encephalitis and several kinds of problematic arrhythmia. Following the diagnosis of Taussig-Bing anomaly

Transvenous electrical ablation of AV conduction was performed in 15 patients with drug-resistant supraventricular tachycardia. Eight patients had paroxysmal AV nodal reentry tachycardia, one had permanent junctional reentry tachycardia, five had recurrent atrial flutter and one paroxysmal atrial

The atypical clinical course of giant-cell arteritis in the elderly (who may develop a clinical picture of severe consumptive disease) is illustrated by two observations with histologically confirmed temporal arteritis. In addition to fever and loss of weight, the inflammatory vascular process in a

A 61-year-old man became ill with a fever of 39.4 degrees C, decreased exercise tolerance and headache as well as chest pain. Physical examination 3 weeks after the onset of symptoms merely revealed irregular heart rate at 100 beats/min. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was increased (30/61 mm), as

Although quinidine has been widely used since the beginning of the century, quinidine-induced hepatotoxicity has been recently reported in the literature. We describe a reversible case of quinidine-induced hepatotoxicity. A 62-y-old male with a past medical history of atrial flutter and adult onset

Prolapsing mitral valve is a common cardiac condition, occurring in approximately 16 million people in the United States alone. Primary prolapsing mitral valve may be familial or nonfamilial and may be associated with myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve leaflets, such as occurs in Marfan

We report the first observed case of a young man who suffered of large and unsuspected left bowel ischemia following an elective right open hernioplasty. A 54-year-old man had a 2-year history of right inguinal reducible mass and was admitted to hospital for an elective day case open inguinal

The patient was a 101-year-old woman whose chief complaints were difficulty of breathing and high fever. The history of the present illness included paroxysmal atrial flutter which was untreated, but she had not developed heart failure.At admission, auscultation of the chest revealed moist rales and

An 85-year-old woman was admitted to hospital due to newly onset of atrial flutter and fever. Biochemical workup showed elevated infection parameters. Empirical antibiotic treatment was initiated without convincing effect. The patient complained of tongue pain and decreased unilateral vision.

We studied 27 Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients having spinal fusion for scoliosis. One patient died intraoperatively of cardiac arrest; all others have done well with no instances of malignant hyperthermia, postoperative ventilatory system dependence, pneumothorax, persisting infection,

BACKGROUND Post cardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) is a troublesome but not uncommon complication following catheter ablation of arrhythmias. We aimed to study the clinical features of ablation-associated PCIS. METHODS For this purpose, we conducted a computerised literature search that identified 19