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Case Reports
. 2017 Apr-Jun;12(2):127-128.
doi: 10.4103/1817-1737.203739.

Asthma-like attacks terminated by slow pathway ablation

Selcuk Ozturk  1 , Hasan Turhan  2 , Ertan Yetkin  3
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Case Reports

Asthma-like attacks terminated by slow pathway ablation

Selcuk Ozturk et al. Ann Thorac Med. 2017 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

Asthma is a chronic airway disease in which the pathological mechanisms are reversible airway obstruction, bronchial hyper reactivity, and constriction of the lower airways. Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a common arrhythmia which originates above the bundle of His and causing heart rates exceeding 150 beats/min. SVT patients present with palpitation, chest pain, chest discomfort, dyspnea, hyperventilation, and lightheadedness, occasionally. Besides, extraordinary presentations of SVT are available in literature. In this report, we describe a case of a patient presenting with treatment-resistant asthma-like attacks lasting for 20 years whom was suspected SVT as an underlying etiology and treated by slow pathway radiofrequency ablation.

Keywords: Asthma; cross-talk; supraventricular arrhythmia.

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