A young man with irregularly irregular narrow complex tachycardia
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Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy As a Chronic Heart Failure Model in Swine
Published on: February 17, 2018
Michael Kwok1, Pieter Storm de Klerk1, Braden Vogt1
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, RI, USA.
Abstract:
Pulmonary vein atrial tachycardia (PVAT) is a rare arrhythmia that accounts for 3% of all atrial tachycardia types. On electrocardiogram, fast PVATs may be misinterpreted as atrial fibrillation at first glance. We present a case of PVAT refractory to pharmacological intervention in a 31-year-old, requiring ablation to terminate the arrhythmia.
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