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Vol. 70. Issue 1.
Pages 54 (January 2017)
Vol. 70. Issue 1.
Pages 54 (January 2017)
ECG Contest
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Zorba Blázquez Bermejo⿿
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, Laura Peña Conde, Rafael Peinado
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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A 64-year-old man with diabetes and dyslipidemia who had an acute myocardial infarction in 1998 and stents implanted in the anterior descending and right coronary arteries. In a recent echocardiogram, he had mild left ventricular dysfunction (left ventricular ejection fraction of 46%). He attended the emergency department due to 6-hour history of general discomfort, dizziness, and sweating, with a blood pressure of 100/68 mmHg and heart rate of 160 bpm. Physical examination revealed no evidence of heart failure. An electrocardiogram was performed, as shown in Figure.

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What would be your diagnosis and treatment of this patient?

  • 1.

    Atrial flutter. Electrical cardioversion and subsequent ablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus.

  • 2.

    Ventricular tachycardia. Cardioversion and defibrillator implantation.

  • 3.

    Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. Vagal maneuvers or intravenous adenosine and subsequent intravenous catheter ablation.

  • 4.

    Ventricular tachycardia. Cardioversion and electrophysiological study before any therapeutic decision.

Suggest a solution to this ECG Contest at http://www.revespcardiol.org/es/electroreto/70/01. The answer will be published in the next issue (February 2017). #RetoECG.

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