Challenges of ICD Therapy in the Management of Long QT Syndrome – 2004

The patient is a 38 year old woman who had been diagnosed as having epilepsy since childhood. She presented with syncopal spells that degenerated into epileptic seizures. EEG studies failed to demonstrate an epilepitic focus and a multiplicity of anti-epileptic agents failed to prevent her recurrent syncopal spells and seizures