Cardiac arrest, a sudden cessation of heart function, demands immediate intervention to prevent death. Survival rates, ...

BACKGROUND: Penetrance and risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) are increasingly recognized as being genotype specific. Therefore, ...

An Overland Park woman is suing the parent company of Tasty’s, a Kansas City burger joint, saying food from the restaurant gave her son Salmonella poisoning, causing severe medical issues and leading ...

Background and objective Prior studies have suggested that patients with premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) may have an ...

Differentiating between ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in clinical and preclinical research is based on subjective definitions that have yet to be validated using objective ...

When confronted with a tachycardia having a broad QRS complex, it is important to be able to differentiate between a supraventricular and a ventricular tachycardia. Medication given for the treatment ...

Although previous studies have suggested that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) adjusted by left ventricular mass (LVM) might improve prognostic risk stratification of cardiac events, few ...

Objective: To examine the efficacy of bolus dose intravenous amiodarone for the pharmacological termination of haemodynamically-tolerated sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT). Design, ...

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of heart disease-related death, but deaths from heart disease have still been responsible for more U.S. fatalities than any other cause, a new American ...

The family of a young boy is suing a Kansas City-area restaurant after the child suffered a severe case of Salmonella poisoning that nearly killed him.