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Ventricular Tachycardia Summary

Description: An abnormally rapid ventricular rhythm usually in excess of 150 beats per minute. It is generated within the ventricle below the BUNDLE OF HIS, either as autonomic impulse formation or reentrant impulse conduction. Depending on the etiology, onset of ventricular tachycardia can be paroxysmal (sudden) or nonparoxysmal, its wide QRS complexes can be uniform or polymorphic, and the ventricular beating may be independent of the atrial beating (AV dissociation).

Also Known As: Tachycardia, Ventricular; Tachycardias, Ventricular; Ventricular Tachycardias

Networked: 6221 relevant articles (445 outcomes, 641 trials/studies) for this Disease

Key Drugs and Agents for Ventricular Tachycardia

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Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to treatments:
  1. Amiodarone (Amiodarona) : 64 outcomes 73 studies in 508 results : FDA 4 Generic
  2. Anti-Arrhythmia Agents : 30 outcomes 27 studies in 264 results : IBA
  3. Sotalol (Sotalol Hydrochloride) : 27 outcomes 31 studies in 136 results : FDA 18 Generic
  4. Lidocaine (Xylocaine) : 24 outcomes 18 studies in 185 results : FDA 168 Generic
  5. Procainamide (Procan) : 23 outcomes 30 studies in 189 results : FDA 75 Generic
  6. Verapamil (Calan) : 19 outcomes 22 studies in 177 results : FDA 64 Generic
  7. Mexiletine (Mexitil) : 17 outcomes 13 studies in 91 results : FDA 5 Generic
  8. Flecainide (Tambocor) : 16 outcomes 10 studies in 115 results : FDA 7 Generic
  9. Propafenone (Rythmol) : 15 outcomes 10 studies in 76 results : FDA 8 Generic
  10. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) : 11 outcomes 15 studies in 72 results : IBA
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Diseases Related to Ventricular Tachycardia

  1. Ventricular Fibrillation
  2. Cardiac Arrhythmias (Arrythmia)
  3. Tachycardia (Tachyarrhythmias)
  4. Ventricular Premature Complexes (Premature Ventricular Contraction)
  5. Myocardial Infarction
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Key Therapies for Ventricular Tachycardia

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  1. Implantable Defibrillators (Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator) : 37 outcomes 99 studies in 677 results
  2. Defibrillators (Defibrillator) : 15 outcomes 62 studies in 334 results
  3. Catheters : 12 outcomes 26 studies in 250 results
  4. Drug Therapy (Chemotherapy) : 11 outcomes 23 studies in 164 results
  5. Cryosurgery : 9 outcomes 3 studies in 74 results
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