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A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for a regular tachycardia, possible rales at both bases, some mild RUQ abdominal tenderness. Thus, I believe it is a regular, monomorphic, wide complex tachycardia. Or it could simply still be classic VT. What is the Diagnosis?

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Predictors of outcome in a contemporary cardiac sarcoidosis population: Role of brain natriuretic peptide, left ventricular function and myocardial inflammation

European Journal of Heart Failure

AV, atrioventricular; BNP, brain natriuretic peptide; CMR, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; FDG-PET, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; HF, heart failure; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; SCD, sudden cardiac death; SUVmax, maximum standardized uptake value; VT, ventricular tachycardia.