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    Anaesth Intensive Care. 2000 Dec;28(6):698-700.

    Ventricular arrhythmias associated with hypoglycaemia.

    Chelliah YR.

    Department of Anaesthesiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore.

    Hypoglycaemia commonly manifests as increased sympathetic discharge or as neuroglycopaenia in the awake patient. This case may represent an example of the effect of hypoglycaemia on the heart giving rise to ventricular tachycardia, which promptly resolved at the time of correction of hypoglycaemia.

    PMID: 11153301 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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