Dr. Dickfeld answers the question: 'Types Of Abnormal Ventricular Rhythms?' — -- Question: What are the various kinds of abnormal ventricular heart rhythms, and how do they differ from one ...

A new multicenter trial has used a new ablation technique for patients with ventricular tachycardia, an abnormally rapid heart rhythm that is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death worldwide. A first ...

SUDDEN death in persons with artificial pacemakers is a continuing and disturbing problem. Causes include pacemaker-catheter displacement, electric-component failure, broken wires and rising pacing ...

If you have ventricular tachycardia, your doctor may give you medicine to slow your heart rate down. You might also need a catheter ablation. In this procedure, a doctor threads a thin tube through an ...

The study, published earlier this month in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that some endurance athletes ...

Dr. Richard Page answers the question: 'What Causes Defibrillator To Fire?' — -- Question: What kind of heart rhythm problems will cause my defibrillator to fire? Answer: Your defibrillator is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study offers more evidence that the rapid heartbeat seen in many hard-training athletes is typically a benign side effect of physical conditioning. Elite athletes ...

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 ...

Radiation therapy often is used to treat cancer patients. Now, doctors have shown that radiation therapy -- aimed directly at the heart -- can be used to treat patients with a life-threatening heart ...

[Music] cardiac arhythmia can be classified by site of origin sinus rhythms originate from the sinoatrial node or SA node atrial rhythms originate from the Atria ventricular rhythms originate from the ...

A heart arrhythmia is when your heart beats too fast, too slow, or out of sync. Some arrhythmias can be genetic. A genetic arrhythmia happens when one or both of your parents pass down a gene change ...

Breathing in tiny particles of air pollution may trigger irregular heart rhythms in otherwise healthy teenagers and increase their risk of sudden cardiac death, a new study has found. The study, ...