Intractable ventricular tachycardia in a patient with giant cell myocarditis, thymoma and myasthenia gravis

Int J Cardiol. 1986 Dec;13(3):374-8. doi: 10.1016/0167-5273(86)90124-5.

Abstract

A 48-year-old man presented with a malignant thymoma in combination with myositis, myasthenia gravis, a giant cell myocarditis and recurrent intractable ventricular tachycardias. Despite various therapies (chemical, electrical and surgical), arrhythmias supervened in the presence of a normal coronary arteriogram. Active myocarditis was believed to be the mechanism of the ventricular tachycardias.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Granuloma, Giant Cell / complications
  • Granuloma, Giant Cell / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myasthenia Gravis / complications
  • Myocarditis / complications
  • Myocarditis / physiopathology*
  • Radiography
  • Tachycardia / complications
  • Tachycardia / physiopathology*
  • Thymoma / complications
  • Thymoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Thymus Neoplasms / complications
  • Thymus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging