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Overdrive pacing in a patient with incessant torsades de pointes #MMPMID24121811
Overbey AN; Austin A; Seidensticker DF; Lin AH
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A 75-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) for syncope and was found to have intermittent runs of torsades de pointes (TdP). The patient had a medical history significant for disseminated coccidiomycosis and was on prophylactic fluconazole. Forty-eight hours prior to presentation, the patient had intractable nausea and vomiting and was unable to take anything orally. He eventually presented to the ED with severe hypokalaemia and hypomagnesaemia with repeat symptomatic runs of TdP, which required overdrive transvenous pacing. During the patient''s admission, his electrolytes were aggressively replete. Fluconazole was discontinued, and prior to discharge, the patient recovered fully with ECGs showing a normalisation of the QT interval.