The simultaneous occurrence of narrow and wide QRS complex tachycardias was observed in 2 patients evaluated at our electrophysiological centers. Electrophysiological testing revealed the coexistence of two types of arrhythmia (atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and verapamil-sensitive left ventricular tachycardia) in one patient and of three types of arrhythmia (atrioventricular noda...

Czaja AS, Anderson HD, Ghosh D, Davidson J, Campbell JD, Valuck RJ. Increased Odds of Ventricular Arrhythmias Associated with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use among the Pediatric and Young Adult Population: A Case-Control Study. J Pediatr 2020;226:173-8. Among children young adults, what is ventricular arrhythmia risk associated selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use? Case–...

Myocardial ischemia-induced arrhythmia, especially ventricular arrhythmia, is the main reason for sudden cardiac death. Therefore, ischemic ventricular arrhythmia-targeted treatments are urgently needed. The mechanism of Tiaogan Qingxin Granule in premature ventricular beat (PVB) treatment was explored in arrhythmic rats pretreated with Tiaogan Qingxin Granule. Sprague-Dawley rats (N = 40) were...

Background Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is a powerful tool to identify the arrhythmia substrate in patients with ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. However, the performance and diagnostic yield of CMR in pre-ablation evaluation for ventricular arrhythmia in patients without known structural heart disease was still unknown. In the present study, we sought to investigate the per...

“Mission critical” is a uniquely American cliché generally held to mean an action or series of actions essential for the success of an important endeavor. Randomized clinical trials have conclusively demonstrated that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality among appropriately selected patients who have survived an episode of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia or ar...

Clinical characteristics that correlate with arrhythmia inducibility were determined in 150 consecutive survivors of cardiac arrest. All underwent electrophysiologic study with a uniform protocol when they were not receiving antiarrhythmic drugs. A ventricular tachyarrhythmia (sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or nonsustained ventricular tachycardia) was in...

RATIONALE Congenital ventricular diverticulum is a rare cardiac malformation with a prevalence of about 0.26% in unselected adult patients during other diagnostic procedures. Ventricular arrhythmia originating from outflow tract diverticulum is even rarer and its etiology, epidemiology and proper treatment still remain controversial. PATIENT CONCERNS We present 2 cases of isolated outflow tra...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to identify subgroups of arrhythmia patients who do not benefit from use of the implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). BACKGROUND Treatment of serious ventricular arrhythmias has evolved toward more common use of the ICD. Since estimates of the cost per year of life saved by ICD therapy vary from $25,000 to perhaps $125,000, it is important to identify ...

Sudden cardiac death continues to be a major public health problem. Ventricular arrhythmia is a main cause of sudden cardiac death. The present review addresses the links between renal function tests, several laboratory markers, and ventricular arrhythmia risk in patients with renal disease, undergoing or not hemodialysis or renal transplant, focusing on recent clinical studies. Therapy of hypo...

Complications of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), among which serious ventricular arrhythmia and sudden death are of major importance, affect many individuals due to the high incidence of MVP itself in the community despite the actual low incidence of these complications. The present study investigated the incidence and distribution of ventricular arrhythmias according to their severity and relatio...