Asymptomatic wide complex tachycardia: a case report

Wide complex tachycardias are a commonly encountered entity in coronary care units, intensive care units and emergency departments. Though, these arrhythmias are potentially fatal, they need to recognized first and treated appropriately. Associated physical signs are helpful in this. We present a ca...

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Autores principales: Mukerji, Siddharth, Aloka, Feras, Khasnis, Atul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19144116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-47
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description Wide complex tachycardias are a commonly encountered entity in coronary care units, intensive care units and emergency departments. Though, these arrhythmias are potentially fatal, they need to recognized first and treated appropriately. Associated physical signs are helpful in this. We present a case of a 54-year-old-female who recently underwent placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for cardiomyopathy and developed tachycardia.
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spelling pubmed-26303012009-01-24 Asymptomatic wide complex tachycardia: a case report Mukerji, Siddharth Aloka, Feras Khasnis, Atul Cases J Case Report Wide complex tachycardias are a commonly encountered entity in coronary care units, intensive care units and emergency departments. Though, these arrhythmias are potentially fatal, they need to recognized first and treated appropriately. Associated physical signs are helpful in this. We present a case of a 54-year-old-female who recently underwent placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator for cardiomyopathy and developed tachycardia. BioMed Central 2009-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2630301/ /pubmed/19144116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-47 Text en Copyright ©2009 Mukerji et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Asymptomatic wide complex tachycardia: a case report
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title_short Asymptomatic wide complex tachycardia: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630301/
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