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 ...

Patients with ventricular tachycardia and ischemic cardiomyopathy are at high risk for adverse outcomes. Catheter ablation is commonly used when antiarrhythmic drugs do not suppress ventricular ...

Ventricular tachycardia, or V-tach (VT), and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) are two types of tachycardia. The term “tachycardia” refers to a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. The key ...

Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, a type of arrhythmia, can cause short episodes of rapid heart rate and related symptoms. It usually doesn’t affect life expectancy, but treatment can help you ...

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a heart rhythm problem, or arrhythmia. If you have it, your heartbeat is faster and irregular at times. When this happens, it’s harder ...

Wide complex tachycardia is a general term that refers to conditions that cause an unusually fast heart rate and a particular pattern on an EKG. Tachycardia is when your heart beats unusually fast, ...