Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy as a Cause of Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia Requiring Heart Transplant

Introduction

The most common setting for ventricular tachycardia (VT) is ischemic heart disease, in which myocardial scar tissue is the substrate for arrhythmia.^, However, in some myocardial diseases (i.e., myocarditis, arrhythmogenic and dilated cardiomyopathies [DCM]), electrical abnormalities can precede apparent structural changes rendering diagnosis and treatment difficult.

The present study describes a case of inflammatory cardiomyopathy that appeared as a recurrent VT and required a heart transplant as the only therapeutic alternative after 20 years of the disease.

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