Ventricular arrhythmia during rehabilitation of cervical spinal cord injury-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Ventricular arrhythmia during rehabilitation of cervical spinal cord injury

Published:2020-09-02 Issue:Vol.11, no.3 Volume:11 Page:344-349
ISSN:2069-7597
Container-title:Balneo Research Journal
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Author:

GUSETU Gabriel¹,BULBOACĂ Angelo²,MAGER Monica Alina³,CISMARU Gabriel¹,BULBOACĂ Alexandra Ina⁴,STĂNESCU Ioana⁵

Affiliation:

1. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2. Rehabilitation Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2. 2. Rehabilitation Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

3. 3. Department of Neurosciences, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania 4. Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children, Pediatric Neurology Department Cluj-Napoca, Romania

4. 5. “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania

5. 2. Rehabilitation Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 3. Department of Neurosciences, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury have a high incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, especially in the first 14 to 30 days after traumatic event (acute phase). Electrophysiological abnormalities described in the acute phase are most often bradycardia, which is spontaneous or triggered by various stimuli. In the chronic phase, varied arrhythmias are described, but ventricular arrhythmias as a result of autonomic dysregulation in chronic SCI are rare and isolated. We present the case of a patient with a C5-C6 incomplete spinal cord injury (ASIA-B grade) in which symptomatic ventricular arrhythmia is described one year after the traumatic event.

Publisher

Romanian Association of Balneology