Ventricular tachycardia refers to a wide QRS complex heart rhythm — that is, a QRS duration beyond 120 milliseconds — originating in the ventricles at a rate of greater than 100 beats per minute.

But some heart rhythms—including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia—can signal a greatly increased risk of stroke, heart failure, and death, McElderry says. At the Heart and Vascular ...

An idioventricular rhythm is very similar to ventricular tachycardia except the ventricular rate is less than 60 beats per minute. All other characteristics of VT apply; this includes the presence ...

The harder your heart has to work to pump blood throughout your body while you're not exercising, the higher your resting ...

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart.

CHICAGO -- For patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT ... and a past president of the Heart Rhythm Society, agreed: "This may change the way we practice." While quality of life findings ...

Patients with structural heart disease are ... circuits causing recurrent ventricular tachycardias. Ablation sites (maroon circular tags) abolished ventricular tachycardia in this patient.

A 59-year-old female patient presented with “suspected ventricular ... reentry tachycardia). The ECG on the ward showed no sign of long or short QT (cQT time of 430 ms), and a heart rate of ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

Scar-dependent ventricular tachycardia, or VT, is a dangerous, sporadic, rapid heart rhythm caused by scar tissue on the heart muscle from a prior heart attack or a genetic condition. It is ...

CV, cardiovascular; EST, exercise stress testing; LBBB, left bundle branch block; NSVT, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia ... s heart that characteristically reverses with deconditioning, and thus ...

In addition, there is heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy). The clinical course is characterized by ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia), heart failure, syncope and sudden death. ARVD/C ...