An Unusual Cause of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Recorded on a Heartrate Monitor

Peter T Moore; Arnold C T Ng; Paul A Gould; William Y S Wang

doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2016.04.017

An Unusual Cause of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Recorded on a Heartrate Monitor

Heart Lung Circ. 2016 Oct;25(10):e130-2. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.04.017. Epub 2016 May 18.

Authors

Peter T Moore¹, Arnold C T Ng², Paul A Gould², William Y S Wang³

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
² Cardiology Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
³ Cardiology Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. Electronic address: william.wang@uq.edu.au.

PMID: 27267481
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.04.017

Abstract

Coronary vasospasm is an uncommon, but perhaps under-recognised, cause of cardiac arrest. We present a novel case of an exercise-induced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to coronary vasospasm, captured on a heartrate monitor, and discuss the management options for this condition.

Keywords: Cardiac arrest; Coronary vasospasm.

Copyright © 2016 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Coronary Vasospasm* / complications
Coronary Vasospasm* / physiopathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest* / etiology
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest* / physiopathology