Initiation of ventricular fibrillation by atrial fibrillation.

Brembilla-Perrot, B; Grentzinger, A; Guenoun, P; Giorgi, J P; Licho, T · Eur Heart J · 1994

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We report the case of a patient who developed spontaneously a ventricular fibrillation during atrial fibrillation, 8 min after a perfusion of isoproterenol was stopped. Two mechanisms could explain the ventricular arrhythmia: silent ischaemia and a long-short cycle sequence just before ventricular fibrillation.

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