Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electromechanical wave imaging, a high-frame rate ultrasound technique, localized atrial and ventricular ...

ICDs detect tachycardias imperfectly: An ICD-detected tachycardia may represent either a tachyarrhythmia (SVT or VT) or oversensing of nonarrhythmic electrical signals. ICDs also classify tachycardias ...

NF was a 24-year-old gravida 5 Para 1031 African-American woman presented for a prenatal visit at 38 weeks of gestation. As part of her visit, the fetal heart rate was auscultated and found to be ...

Atrial flutter is an abnormal heart rhythm where the upper heart chambers beat too fast, reducing the heart’s ability to pump blood effectively and potentially leading to heart muscle damage, stroke, ...

A 67-year-old man with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction had recurrent ventricular fibrillation that required insertion of temporary pacemaker. When a permanent pacemaker was inserted stable ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2005;28(12):1322-1346. The performance of SVT-VT discriminators is linked to boundaries between detection zones for ventricular arrhythmias. In Guidant ICDs, this link is ...

Atrial flutter is a heart disorder in which the heart beats out of its normal rhythm. The condition is similar to atrial fibrillation (afib) — the most common type of arrhythmia (abnormal heartbeat) — ...

Atrial flutter is a type of irregular heartbeat, or an arrhythmia. It causes your heart to beat too fast. Atrial flutter doesn't always have symptoms, but it can sometimes have serious consequences if ...