ventricular tachycardia storm in a patient with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator following covid-19 infection

Severe coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) infection presents with acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiorgan dysfunction. cardiac involvement is seen in about a quarter of patients, and it can present as acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, myocarditis, and thromboembolic events. ventricular arrhythmias in the setting of covid-19 infection are usually multifactorial in etiology. there are only a few reports of ventricular tachycardia (vt) storms in patients with covid-19 infection. we hereby report a case of an elderly man with severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction and a stable cardiac status for the last few years who, following coronary artery bypass graft surgery and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (icd) implantation, experienced a vt storm after a covid-19 infection. the vt storm was controlled using multiple icd shocks, along with antiarrhythmic drugs. following his recovery from covid-19 infection, the patient was asymptomatic at a 3-month follow-up.