ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Tachycardia Center

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Low serum magnesium (Mg) is associated with an increased incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. A richer phenotyping of arrhythmia indices, such as burden or frequency, may provide etiologic insights. To evaluate cross-sectional associat...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - The HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) programming recommends burst antitachycardia pacing (ATP) for treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) up to very high rates. The number o...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are very low and neurologic recovery is poor. Innovative strategies have been developed to improve outcomes. A collaborative extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) program for out-of-h...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) occurs frequently in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), especially in high-risk patients. The role of rapid-rate NSVT (RR-NSVT) documented by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in ...

Jul 29th, 2020 - A 70-year-old woman with HER2+/ER+ breast cancer on adjuvant trastuzumab therapy without a history of cardiovascular disease presented with respiratory failure from influenza and was found to have intermittent left bundle branch block (LBBB) with ...

Jun 14th, 2020 - This Canadian Cardiovascular Society position statement is focused on the management of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) that occurs in patients with structural heart disease (SHD), including previous myocar...

May 9th, 2019 - The consensus statement, accompanied by a systematic review and meta-analysis published in conjunction with this document, serves as a resource guide and comprehensive review of the field for clinicians around the world who are working to improve...

Mar 18th, 2019 - Coronary artery disease is prevalent in different causes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), especially in individuals presenting with shockable rhythms of ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/pVT). The purpose of t...

Dec 20th, 2018 - Antiarrhythmic medications are commonly administered during and immediately after a ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest. However, it is unclear whether these medications improve patient outcomes. This 2018 Ame...

May 11th, 2017 - To assess the evidence and make evidence-based recommendations for acute interventions to reduce brain injury in adult patients who are comatose after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Published literature from 1966 to August 29, 2016, was...

Aug 5th, 2020 - In patients without structural heart disease, Flecainide Acetate Tablets USP are indicated for the prevention of: •paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias (PSVT), including atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia, atrioventricular reentrant ...

Aug 3rd, 2020 - Low serum magnesium (Mg) is associated with an increased incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. A richer phenotyping of arrhythmia indices, such as burden or frequency, may provide etiologic insights. To evaluate cross-sectional associat...

Aug 2nd, 2020 - The HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) programming recommends burst antitachycardia pacing (ATP) for treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) up to very high rates. The number o...

Jul 31st, 2020 - Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are very low and neurologic recovery is poor. Innovative strategies have been developed to improve outcomes. A collaborative extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) program for out-of-h...

Jul 30th, 2020 - Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) occurs frequently in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), especially in high-risk patients. The role of rapid-rate NSVT (RR-NSVT) documented by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in ...

Sep 18th, 2019 - While sports can be risky for kids with arrhythmogenic cardiac conditions, researchers are now reporting four cases in which video games triggered syncope from ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. In each case, it was a boy (ages 10 to 15) pla...

Aug 20th, 2019 - Early ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) commonly occur after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, researchers found, although whether inherently dangerous or merely a marker of disease severity remained unclear. A quarter of the 652 LVA...

May 9th, 2019 - The consensus statement, accompanied by a systematic review and meta-analysis published in conjunction with this document, serves as a resource guide and comprehensive review of the field for clinicians around the world who are working to improve...

Mar 18th, 2019 - Coronary artery disease is prevalent in different causes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), especially in individuals presenting with shockable rhythms of ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/pVT). The purpose of t...

Sep 19th, 2018 - A completely noninvasive method to identify the origin of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and treat it with radiation was pioneered by Clifford Robinson, MD, and Phillip Cuculich, MD. Cuculich and I talked about the trial (published in the New Englan...