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Ventricular Fibrillation During Swimming in a Patient With Long-QT Syndrome
2002
Circulation
A 32-year-old woman was diagnosed with long-QT syndrome in 1997. One year later, a single-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was implanted after multiple episodes of syncope. She has had no syncope or ICD discharge during the last 19 months. She passed out while swimming. She was pulled from the water semiconscious by her 13-year-old daughter and did not remember receiving an ICD shock. A 12-lead ECG showed a QT interval of 600 ms (Figure 1 ). The ICD interrogation revealed
doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000018643.56813.8c
pmid:12135956
fatcat:zkzwuyekvvcfnh2txqe6wgnbki