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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If our valves are leaky then again, a smaller volume of blood is effectively ejected because some leaks back Cardiomyopathies – if the heart muscle itself is defective in some way then that makes it weaker. This includes conditions like familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, familial dilated cardiomyopathy etc.

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Young Man with a Heart Rate of 257. What is it and how to manage?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Suspect an idiopathic form of VT when a younger adult without known coronary or structural heart disease develops a regular WCT ( W ide- C omplex T achycardia ) rhythm during exercise or other strenuous effort — and despite this, seems to tolerate the WCT rhythm surprisingly well.