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Ablation Bests Drugs for Ventricular Tachycardia After Heart Attack

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ischemic cardiomyopathy, going right to catheter ablation improved outcomes compared with trying antiarrhythmic drugs first, the VANISH2 trial showed. Death or.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation: the Cardiomyopathy/Myocarditis Registry of the EURObservational Research Programme of the European Society of Cardiology

Open Heart

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is commonly associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), but its impact on outcomes in real-world practice is uncertain. years) were enrolled in the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) Cardiomyopathy/Myocarditis Registry. Methods Overall, 1739 adult patients with HCM (40.9%

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Catheter Ablation or Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Ventricular Tachycardia

The New England Journal of Medicine

Among patients with ventricular tachycardia and ischemic cardiomyopathy, catheter ablation as an initial therapy led to a lower risk of adverse outcomes than antiarrhythmic drug therapy.

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Wide Complex Tachycardia -- VT, SVT, or A Fib with RVR? If SVT, is it AVNRT or AVRT?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

male with pertinent past medical history including Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, cardiomyopathy, Pulmonary Embolism, and hypertension presented to the Emergency Department via ambulance for respiratory distress and tachycardia. Description : Regular Wide Complex Tachycardia at a rate of about 160. SVT with aberrancy?

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Young Man with Very Fast Regular Wide Complex Tachycardia

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A prehospital 12-lead was recorded: There is a regular wide complex tachycardia. The computer diagnosed this as Ventricular Tachycardia. There is a wide complex regular tachycardia at a rate of 226. Toothache, incidental Wide Complex Tachycardia Could it be fascicular VT or Bundle Branch VT ( i.e., idiopathic VT )?

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Correlation of Extent of Left Ventricular Endocardial Unipolar Low Voltage Zones with Ventricular Tachycardia in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy

HeartRhythm

Endocardial electrogram (EGM) characteristics in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) have not been explored adequately for prognostication.

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Ventricular Tachycardia Antiarrhythmics or Ablation in Structural Heart Disease 2

American College of Cardiology

The goal of the VANISH2 trial was to compare endocardial catheter ablation with conventional antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) therapy as a first-line treatment for infarct-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) in ischemic cardiomyopathy.