We reviewed randomized controlled trials, review articles and clinical practice guidelines to present a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of SVTs (Box 1). We focus on the most common ...

A 29-year-old woman has a known history of palpitations from a diagnosis of supraventricular tachycardia that usually terminates when she performs a Valsalva maneuver. Today, she presents to the ...

I'm lying on my back with my legs in the air and thumb in my mouth, blowing out hard. But it's not working. My heart is still going a million miles an hour. I'd experienced episodes of rapid heartbeat ...

This ECG is challenging to determine the etiology of the wide complex. There is a right bundle branch block pattern. Examining the Brugada criteria for ventricular tachycardia we see that there is no ...

Atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is an irregular heart rhythm that can cause excessively fast heart rates. Though not usually serious, early diagnosis can help prevent severe ...

It was our clinical impression that ECG evidence of pre-excitation (PE) is found more commonly in pts with tricuspid atresia (TA) than previously reported (0.29-1.3%). We attempted to determine a) the ...