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Acquired long QT interval complicated with Torsades de Pointes as presentation of a pheochromocytoma in a paediatric patient: a case report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2014

Gonzalez M. Cecilia ,
Derycke Emilien  and
Houtekie Laurent
Gonzalez M. Cecilia*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
Derycke Emilien
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
Houtekie Laurent
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
*
Correspondence to: G. M. Cecilia, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Avenue Hippocrates 10, Bruxelles 1200, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Torsades de Pointes is an extremely rare arrhythmia in children associated to LQT syndrome. Pheochromocytomas are also extremely rare tumours in the paediatric age. We present a case of a young patient with an acquired long QT syndrome complicating with Torsades de Pointes as first clinical manifestation of a pheochromocytoma.

Keywords

Torsades de PointesAcquired long QT syndromepolymorphic tachycardiapheochromocytoma
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , February 2015 , pp. 391 - 393
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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