A 75-year-old woman with situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), and a double-chamber right ventricle with subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with highly symptomatic ...
Atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) can trigger atrial fibrillation (AF), but the incidence of AVNRT as a cause of AF is unclear. Identification of patients with AVNRT could improve ...
AVNRT commonly affects young, healthy women without structural heart disease. 5 Common tachycardic risk factors include drug induction, caffeine, prior history of heart disease, alcohol use, stress, ...
Supraventricular tachycardia is a term used to describe any heart rhythm that is greater than 100 beats per minute originating from above the AV node (the atrium). The term “SVT” can be confusing at ...
There's a common heart condition that many patients don't know they have until they end up in the emergency room. It happened to our very own Stephanie Bennett last year when she was diagnosed with ...
This is a narrow QRS complex tachycardia with a very fast heart rate (about 250 beats per minute). It is quite difficult to indentify any P wave activity to determine the exact etiology. Most commonly ...
A 75-year-old woman with dextrocardia, situs inversus, and subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). This SVT was easily inducible during ...