Acute cardiac arrest constitutes one of the most difficult and challenging emergencies. It may be due to ventricular standstill or ventricular fibrillation. Although frequent in acute myocardial ...
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Depending on how the heart’s electrical activity appears on an EKG, a doctor may diagnose coarse or fine ventricular fibrillation (VF). Coarse VF appears as larger waves on an EKG compared with the ...
We report a case of vasovagal syncope caused by serious ventricular arrhythmias, which were triggered by PVCs originating from the RVOT. Intravenous administration of edrophonium chloride reproducibly ...
TRANSIENT ventricular fibrillation is now one of the well established causes of the Adams–Stokes syndrome. This fact has recently been documented by Robertson and Mathews, § who thoroughly reviewed ...
Malignant arrhythmias are dangerous heart rhythm problems that can lead to cardiac arrest, most often originating in the heart’s lower chambers. These arrhythmias are frequently linked to underlying ...
Most men with prostate cancer who are treated with medical castration, also called androgen-deprivation therapy, will have an increase in QT interval, with torsade de pointes and ventricular ...
A 25-year-old woman presented to her local hospital following her third episode of syncope in 2 years. All three episodes occurred when she sat down -- the first on a train; the second and third after ...