Abstract
The case of a 19-year-old patient with multifocal premature ventricular contractions and frequent bouts of ventricular tachycardia culminating fatally, with pathologic findings of myocarditis, is presented. This patient had little other clinical evidence of cardiac disease. Other causes of ventricular tachycardia are discussed and other cases of myocarditis of known and unknown etiology with ventricular tachycardia are reviewed. It is pointed out that ventricular tachycardia can be the predominant manifestation of myocarditis, and the possibility is suggested that cases of ventricular tachycardia with no apparent heart disease may represent less serious forms of myocarditis. Some possibilities as to the mechanism of ventricular tachycardia are mentioned. Possible causes for the myocarditis in this case are discussed briefly.
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