Case Report
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Clin Cases. Mar 26, 2020; 8(6): 1129-1136
Published online Mar 26, 2020. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i6.1129
Successful treatment of systemic sclerosis complicated by ventricular tachycardia with a cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator: A case report
Yuan-Yuan Chen, Hui Yan, Jian-Hua Zhu
Yuan-Yuan Chen, Hui Yan, Jian-Hua Zhu, Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China
Author contributions: Chen YY collected the patient’s clinical data and drafted the manuscript; Yan H and Zhu JH provided supervision and critical revision of the manuscript.
Informed consent statement: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this report and any accompanying images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
CARE Checklist (2016) statement: The authors have read the CARE Checklist (2016), and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CARE Checklist (2016).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Jian-Hua Zhu, MD, Chief Doctor, Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road, No. 79, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China. 1183039@zju.edu.cn
Received: December 11, 2019
Peer-review started: December 11, 2019
First decision: January 17, 2020
Revised: January 30, 2020
Accepted: March 11, 2020
Article in press: March 21, 2020
Published online: March 26, 2020
Core Tip

Core tip: Systemic sclerosis, a rare connective tissue disease, associates with various cardiovascular diseases. Tachyarrhythmia is a common clinical manifestation of cardiovascular damage in systemic sclerosis patients, and the occurrence of ventricular abnormalities is closely correlated with death. We report the first successful case of cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator implantation in a patient with systemic sclerosis complicated by ventricular tachycardia.