Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Case Synopsis A 38-year-old gentleman presented to a routine clinic appointment describing a 4-month history of daily episodes of palpitations lasting between 10 and 20 min and declining exercise tolerance. Although he was continuing to work full time as a…

Case Synopsis A.V., a 16-year-old male, was admitted to our cardiac tertiary center because of recurrent episodes of palpitations and recent episodes of “dizziness.” At the age of 1 year, he underwent a surgical repair of a perimembranous ventricular septal…

Case Synopsis We report the case of a patient with repaired atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) and trisomy 21. He underwent surgical repair at the age of 12 years by dual patch technique. Three years later he had a second repair…

Case Synopsis A 39-year-old man was referred to the congenital heart disease (CHD) arrhythmia service in 2015. He was known to have crisscross heart with situs solitus, atrioventricular (AV) concordance, ventriculoarterial (VA) discordance, a large unrestrictive inlet ventricular septal defect…

Case Synopsis A 30-year-old female was referred to the congenital heart disease arrhythmia service in 2016. Diagnoses were transposition of the great arteries (TGA), bilateral superior vena cavae [with a left superior vena cava (SVC) draining into the systemic venous…

Case Synopsis AGE: 18 years GENDER: Male PERSONAL INFORMATION: High school senior WORKING DIAGNOSIS: Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot with progressive severe biventricular dysfunction in the setting of sinus node dysfunction and refractory atrial arrhythmias. History The patient was born with…

Case Synopsis A 37-year-old man with transposition of the great arteries (TGA), ventricular septal defect (VSD), and pulmonary valve stenosis presented with a history of Mustard repair, surgical VSD closure, and pulmonary valvulotomy. Because of sick sinus syndrome and intermittent…

Case Synopsis A 34-year-old man was referred to the congenital heart disease arrhythmia service in 2015. Original diagnoses were tricuspid atresia and pulmonary stenosis. Previous interventions were a left modified Blalock-Taussig shunt in 1980 as an infant; atriopulmonary Fontan operation…

Case Synopsis AR was the only daughter of normal parents, with no family history of cardiac abnormalities. A cardiac murmur was heard at 8 days. At 3 years, palpation confirmed a thrill, and investigations confirmed the presence of a huge…