It sounds horrible, but fainting on standing is one of the main symptoms of postural tachycardia syndrome, also known as PoTS. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone – it’s ...
Does your body sometimes shake and sweat? If you're experiencing these kinds of symptoms, you might be suffering from postural tachycardia syndrome/postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Atrial tachycardia is a form of supraventricular tachycardia that occurs when one focus in the atria begins to fire rapidly, overwhelming the sinoatrial node. This results in rapid conduction of ...
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.
He presented to urgent care and was found to be in wide complex tachycardia at the rate of about 200 bpm (Figure 1). The patient was given diltiazem intravenously and converted to atrial flutter ...
Benign ventricular tachycardia (VT) in children usually arises from the right ventricle. By contrast, the implications of idiopathic left ventricular tachycardia (LVT) in children have not been ...
Any tachycardic rhythm with a left or right bundle branch block that is NOT ventricular tachycardia is considered "supraventricular tachycardia with aberrancy". This would even include sinus ...
A 59-year-old female patient presented with “suspected ventricular tachycardia” on the basis of “abnormalities in long-term ECG” (Figure 1). Cryoablation of the slow pathway had already ...