ventricular tachycardia
Americannoun
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To understand more about radiation's effects on the heart, the researchers plan to continue their investigations of the patients already receiving radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
An irregular heartbeat called ventricular tachycardia is a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest, blamed for about 300,000 U.S. deaths a year.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
His friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz said in a statement he died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a disorder that affects the heart.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
Yet the patients still were having thousands of episodes of ventricular tachycardia, during which a heart may beat 200 times a minute as blood pressure plummets.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
These rhythms, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, have a real chance of responding to jolts of electricity known as defibrillation.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2016
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