Management of ventricular tachycardia in the absence of structural heart disease

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 356-363

  Morin, Daniel P ^b   Lerman, Bruce B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIMETIDINE; CISAPRIDE; CLONIDINE; DOFETILIDE; FLECAINIDE; LIDOCAINE; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SOTALOL; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; THIORIDAZINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLINDNESS; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CORNEA DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART PROARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALAISE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; QT PROLONGATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; RESPIRATORY ARREST; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T WAVE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 34848850408     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-007-0055-9     Document Type: Review

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