Though learning that your child has a heart defect like a ventricular septal defect can be frightening, understanding the ...

Fogoros, MDVentricular tachycardia (V-tach or VT) is when the lower chamber of the heart beats too fast to pump efficiently, ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes ...

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs when there is direct communication between the left and right ventricles. This can be a congenital anomaly or acquired as a complication of a myocardial ...

The teen had traveled from Chicago as part of a Make-a-Wish Foundation trip for his cousin, who has sickle cell anemia. The first full day, the family went on a boat trip and got shaved ice, but on ...

Use of antiarrhythmic drugs or catheter ablation to suppress recurrent ventricular tachycardia is often warranted, but studies comparing the two approaches are limited. New research findings from ...

1 This editorial presents the rationale and considerations for a period of detraining in the diagnostic evaluation of athletes with premature ventricular beats (PVBs). Ultrastructural changes related ...

To predict arrhythmic risk in carriers of filamin C truncating variants, a novel risk predictive model was developed based on ...

The following is a summary of "Periventricular gliomas. Evaluation of the risks associated with ventricular opening in two ...

The following is a summary of “Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: the importance of biventricular strain in ...