Transient Ventricular Fibrillation. A Clinical Case Report

Abstract

Self-terminating ventricular fibrillation (VF) was recorded in a 42-year-old woman without coronary artery or structural heart disease. Reviewing the scientific literature, we found that this type of VF had appeared in vivo in some animal models but was sparsely described in clinical practice. This most unusual case shows that potentially lethal arrhythmias may be self-terminating.

Predicting self-terminating ventricular fibrillations in an isolated heart

“…However, in some rare documented cases, patients with VF are able to recover without any external interventions [1]. This phenomenon is know as self-terminating VF (STVF) [6,7] or transient VF [8]. A thorough understanding of the mechanism of STVF is of vital importance for both clinical applications and understanding of dynamics of excitable systems, in particular the attenuation of spiral waves [9].…”