When the impulses are properly synchronized, you have a normal heartbeat. Ventricular tachycardia occurs when the delivery of impulses is out of sync, causing the lower chambers to beat too fast. This ...

Epicardial mapping and ablation—now routinely ... Ablation sites (maroon circular tags) abolished ventricular tachycardia in this patient.

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

It may be that such patients have a low incidence of sudden death, but it does not necessarily follow that this is an effect of ablation, given the incidence of recurrent ventricular tachycardia.

BACKGROUND: Catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias, one of the most rapidly growing procedures in cardiac ...

Finding the cause of angina in patients without obstructed coronaries can reassure patients and lead to tailored therapy.

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is a rapid, irregular heartbeat that starts suddenly and without warning and may stop just as abruptly. It is a common type of what's called ...

Continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) are utilized as bridge to transplant therapy (BTT) or destination therapy in chronic end-stage heart failure as well as patients with acute heart ...

One of the most feared complications is the occurrence of thromboembolic events (mostly cerebrovascular accidents) due to left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation. The risk of LV thrombus formation is ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation, Huadong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2 Department of Osteoarthropathy Rehabilitation, The Second Rehabilitation Hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai, China ...