Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia in a Patient with Thalassemia Major

[摘要] Although improvements in the treatment of thalassemia with transfusion and chelation therapy have been achieved, iron overload because of repeated red blood cell transfusions continue to cause organ dysfunction. The prognosis is determined by the degree of involvement of heart disease, mortality in these patients is mainly because of heart failure.1 In this case, cardiac hemosiderosis due to thalassemia and admitted to our Emergency Room with ventricular tachycardia with hemodynamic disrupts, then have implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), 30-year-old male patient is presented. This is the first report among the thalassemia patients, presented with ventricular tachycardia based on literature search.

[关键词] electrophysiology–ventricular tachycardia;clinical;implantable devices–ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation;clinical