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Icon for people.comPeople · Apr 13, 2022

What to Know About Ventricular Tachycardia and Myotonic Dystrophy, Gilbert Gottfried's 'Long Illness'

In Gottfried's case, he had ventricular tachycardia, "which is an abnormal heart rhythm where the rhythm of the heart is generated from the ventricle as opposed to from the atrium," Haythe explains.
Verywell Health on MSN.com · Feb 23, 2025

Ventricular Tachycardia Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

In most cases, it is due to structural heart damage caused by conditions like: Ventricular tachycardia can also be the result of conditions that contribute independently to abnormal heart rhythms ...
Physician's Weekly · 8h

Illicit Stimulant Use Raises Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmias, Mortality

Methamphetamine and cocaine use each confer heightened risk for incident ventricular arrhythmias and all-cause mortality, according to a recent study.
Icon for www.healio.comHealio · Nov 20, 2022

Idioventricular Rhythms ECG Review

An idioventricular rhythm is very similar to ventricular tachycardia except the ventricular rate is less than 60 beats per minute. All other characteristics of VT apply; this includes the presence ...
Icon for www.healio.comHealio · Aug 24, 2021

Ventricular Arrhythmia ECG 24

This wide QRS complex tachycardia has a typical left bundle branch block pattern, but two things give the clue that this is ventricular tachycardia. There is a fusion beat (second from left ...
Medscape · 13d

Ablation Surpassing Medication for Ventricular Tachycardia

Often seen as an option of last resort for ventricular tachycardia, new research suggests catheter ablation could have a place as first-line treatment.
Icon for www.medscape.comMedscape · 1d

Antitachycardia Pacing for Ventricular Tachycardia Using Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

The sine-qua non of a reentrant arrhythmia is the ability to reproducibly initiate and terminate the tachycardia by critically ... to consider the origin of ventricular tachycardias that are ...
BioWorld · 8d

Field Medical, Adagio look to VT for break out indication

Presentations at Heart Rhythm 2025 for Field Medical Inc. and Adagio Medical Holdings Inc. demonstrated success in two very different types of ablation for ventricular tachycardia, potentially offering new options for a harder-to-treat type of arrhythmia.
MedTech Dive · 15d

Field Medical raises $40M for PFA in ventricular tachycardia

Led by Farapulse founder Steven Mickelsen, Field has developed a pulsed field ablation device to tackle the dangerous heart rhythm disorder.
TCTMD · 8d

VANISH2 Bolsters Data Backing VT Ablation in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

The US guidelines are likely to change following the release of the VANISH2 results last year, Christine Albert anticipates.
Icon for www.nature.comNature · 23d

Ventricular tachycardia articles from across Nature Portfolio

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart ... N-terminal acetylation dysregulation in the heart causes severe arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. The authors show that stem cell models ...
Icon for www.nejm.orgThe New England Journal of Medicine · 20d

Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation in Man by Externally Applied Electric Countershock

Ventricular fibrillation after irregular tachycardia and prolonged circulatory ... ventricular activity interrupting an idioventricular rhythm of about 30 per minute. He was resuscitated ...
TCTMD · 6d

BIO-LIBRA: Outcomes Vary by Sex, Device in Cardiomyopathy Patients With ICDs

Though women have a lower risk of ventricular arrhythmias than do men, it still exceeds the threshold to justify a device.
Icon for bjsm.bmj.comBMJ · Mar 18, 2024

Premature ventricular beats in athletes: to detrain or not to detrain?

Correspondence to Dr Alessandro Biffi, Med-Ex, Medicine & Exercise, Medical Partner Scuderia Ferrari, Rome, Italy; a.biffi{at}libero.it Long-term physical activity induces structural, functional and electrical changes in the heart, reflecting adaptive ...
Taiwan News · 15d

FIELD MEDICAL ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-HUMAN DATA FOR FOCAL PFA IN SCAR-RELATED VT AT HEART RHYTHM 2025

CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA, Calif., April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Field Medical Inc., a leader in cardiac pulsed field ablation (PFA) technology, announced today its FieldForce™ Ablation System will be featured in eight scientific presentations at the 46 th annual Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting, April 24–27, in San Diego, Calif.
Icon for www.uab.eduKaleido Scope · Oct 30, 2021

Clinical trial evaluating a novel, non-invasive radiation treatment for ventricular tachycardia refractory to medication and catheter ablation

The UAB Departments of Radiation Oncology and Cardiology are looking for patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) not controlled by medications and catheter ablation. The trial will allow patients suffering from VT despite standard of care regimens to ...
Icon for medicalxpress.comMedical Xpress · 24d

Brisk walking pace and time spent at this speed may lower risk of heart rhythm abnormalities, research suggests

A brisk walking pace, and the amount of time spent at this speed, may lower the risk of heart rhythm abnormalities, such as atrial fibrillation, tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), and bradycardia ...
Icon for www.news-medical.netNews Medical · 23d

Brisk walking linked to lower risk of heart rhythm disorders

A brisk walking pace, and the amount of time spent at this speed, may lower the risk of heart rhythm abnormalities, such as atrial fibrillation, tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), and bradycardia ...
Icon for menafn.comMena FN · 17d

FIELD MEDICAL CLOSES $40 MILLION SERIES A FINANCING TO REDEFINE PULSED FIELD ABLATION FOR VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

The Growing Prevalence of VT and AF Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and atrial fibrillation (AF) are two of the most common and serious arrhythmias, contributing to stroke, heart failure, sudden ...