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CASE REPORT

Life Threatening Broad QRS Tachycardia in an Infant with Conduction Disorder and SCN5A Mutation

by Elio Caruso^1,*, Silvia Farruggio¹, Alfredo Di Pino¹, Paolo Guccione¹, Mohammadrafie Khorgami²

1 Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital Centro Cardiologico Pediatrico del Mediterraneo, San Vincenzo Hospital, Taormina, Italy
2 Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

* Corresponding Author: Elio Caruso. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Nightmare Case Reports in Congenital Heart Disease)

Congenital Heart Disease 2022, 17(5), 551-556. https://doi.org/10.32604/chd.2022.023711

Received 10 May 2022; Accepted 30 July 2022; Issue published 06 September 2022

Abstract

We present the case of an infant admitted to our department for a rapid broad complex tachycardia and cardiovascular collapse. The patient was submitted to genetic testing because of a conduction defect at baseline ECG and family history of gene mutation. A new SCN5A gene mutation variant was found leading to diagnosis of sodium-channel dysfunction arrhythmia.

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