Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia Responsive to Verapamil
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
- Vol. 7 (6), 938-948
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8159.1984.tb05641.x
Abstract
We describe five young patients with recurrent ventricular tachycardia in the absence of organic heart disease. In all patients tachycardia could be terminated or prevented with verapamil. Tachycardia in four patients was very similar, with a QRS pattern of right bundle branch block and left axis deviation. Electrophysiology studies in two patients showed that VT was inducible in one patient (rapid atrial or ventricular pacing, ventricular extrastimuli) but not in the other. The clinical and electrocardiographic similarities in these patients suggest that their ventricular tachycardias may share a common pathophysiology and may be dependent on slow channel activity.Keywords
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