TY - JOUR
T1 - Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
T2 - Terminology, Mechanism, Diagnosis, and Emergency Therapy
AU - Viskin, Sami
AU - Chorin, Ehud
AU - Viskin, Dana
AU - Hochstadt, Aviram
AU - Schwartz, Arie Lorin
AU - Rosso, Raphael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/9/7
Y1 - 2021/9/7
N2 - Polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias are highly lethal arrhythmias. Several types of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia have similar electrocardiographic characteristics but have different modes of therapy. In fact, medications considered the treatment of choice for one form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, are contraindicated for the other. Yet confusion about terminology, and thus diagnosis and therapy, continues. We present an in-depth review of the different forms of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and propose a practical step-by-step approach for distinguishing these malignant arrhythmias.
AB - Polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias are highly lethal arrhythmias. Several types of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia have similar electrocardiographic characteristics but have different modes of therapy. In fact, medications considered the treatment of choice for one form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, are contraindicated for the other. Yet confusion about terminology, and thus diagnosis and therapy, continues. We present an in-depth review of the different forms of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and propose a practical step-by-step approach for distinguishing these malignant arrhythmias.
KW - Brugada syndrome
KW - quinidine
KW - tachycardia, ventricular
KW - torsade de pointes
KW - ventricular fibrillation
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U2 - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055783
DO - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055783
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C2 - 34491774
AN - SCOPUS:85113329481
SN - 0009-7322
VL - 144
SP - 823
EP - 839
JO - Circulation
JF - Circulation
IS - 10
ER -