Ventricular tachycardia (VT) after palliative repair of congenital heart disease is relatively rare. Despite this rarity, VT is a known cause of early, intermediate and late morbidity and mortality in ...

Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart rate that occurs in the lower chambers of the heart and lasts for less than 30 seconds. Tachycardia is a heart rate that is faster ...

If you have ventricular tachycardia, your doctor may give you medicine to slow your heart rate down. You might also need a catheter ablation. In this procedure, a doctor threads a thin tube through an ...

Ventricular arrhythmias, principally sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Sudden cardiac death accounts for up ...

A new multicenter trial has used a new ablation technique for patients with ventricular tachycardia, an abnormally rapid heart rhythm that is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death worldwide. A first ...

Dr. Sunu S. Thomas: A 26-year-old pregnant woman was transferred to this hospital for evaluation and treatment of cardiogenic shock after a cardiac arrest resulting from ventricular tachycardia. The ...

In August 2005, the Food and Drug Administration and Genentech issued warnings to physicians about cardiotoxicity associated with the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin), as observed in ...

Tachycardia refers to a fast resting heart rate, usually over 100 beats per minute (bpm) in adults. Some people experience no symptoms, but others may notice palpitations and lightheadedness, among ...

This wide QRS complex tachycardia has a typical left bundle branch block pattern, but two things give the clue that this is ventricular tachycardia. There is a fusion beat (second from left) present ...