Why the study?
The peripartum period creates a stressful environment that can trigger ventricular tachycardia in patients with CPVT, requiring specialized management during childbirth.
Describes the peripartum management of a patient with the rare cardiac channelopathy CPVT during childbirth.
Peripartum CPVT warrants individualized stress mitigation; level-5 case leaves standardized protocols open.
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a potentially lethal cardiac channelopathy characterized by episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) during exercise or in stressful situations. As the peripartum period creates a stressful environment, we describe our approach of this rare condition in a very common situation, child birth.
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