Dr. Nino Mihatov: A 52-year-old woman was evaluated for a new wide-complex tachycardia that developed while she was hospitalized for the management of seizures. Five days before the development of ...

What caused a patient in their 60s to develop intermittent heart palpitations and periodic weakness? At presentation to the emergency department, the patient said they had not had any significant ...

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The correct diagnosis is ventricular tachycardia (Figure 2). The rhythm is regular with a rate of 130 beats/min. The QRS complexes are wide (0.16 sec) without the morphology of a typical right or left ...

The correct diagnosis is ventricular tachycardia (Figure 2). Figure 2. Courtesy of Philip J. Podrid, MD. The rhythm is regular at a rate of 120 beats/min. The QRS complex duration is increased (0.20 ...