Wide-QRS Complex Tachycardia

Am J Cardiol. 2018 Jan 15;121(2):275-276. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.09.035. Epub 2017 Oct 19.

Abstract

In a man with a wide-QRS complex tachycardia, a history of an inferior left ventricular scar, atrioventricular dissociation during the tachycardia, and a QRS morphology inconsistent with right or left bundle branch block exclude a diagnosis of supraventricular tachycardia with aberrant ventricular conduction due to bundle branch block or ventricular preexcitation and establish a diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Alcoholism / complications
  • Amphetamine-Related Disorders / complications
  • Bundle-Branch Block / diagnosis
  • Cardiac Conduction System Disease / diagnosis*
  • Cardiomyopathies / etiology
  • Cicatrix
  • Cocaine-Related Disorders / complications
  • Defibrillators, Implantable
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Block / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pre-Excitation Syndromes / diagnosis
  • Tachycardia, Supraventricular / diagnosis*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis*