Ventricular Tachycardia in a Pediatric Patient with High-Risk Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura

Taylor J Kratochvil; Jeffrey A Robinson

doi:10.1155/2023/6466680

Ventricular Tachycardia in a Pediatric Patient with High-Risk Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura

Case Rep Cardiol. 2023 Jan 18:2023:6466680. doi: 10.1155/2023/6466680. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Taylor J Kratochvil^{1

2

3}, Jeffrey A Robinson^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
³ College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
⁵ The Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Heart Center, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.

Abstract

An 8-year-old previously healthy male was diagnosed with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and increased serum cardiac troponin I. Telemetry recorded non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, without ST-segment changes or other abnormalities on serial electrocardiogram. This case illustrates that cardiac monitoring by telemetry should be considered in high-risk TTP with elevated cardiac troponin.

Publication types

Case Reports