Torsade de pointes with short coupling interval

B Van Den Branden, E Wever, L Boersma - Acta cardiologica, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Torsade de pointes (TdP), a ventricular tachycardia (VT) with the peaks of QRS complexes
twisting around the iso-electric baseline and progressive amplitude and polarity variations …

Torsade de pointes

W Haverkamp, M Hördt, X Chen, G Hindricks… - Zeitschrift fur …, 1993 - europepmc.org
Torsade de pointes (TDP) is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia with a particular
electrocardiographic pattern of continuously changing (" twisting") morphology of the QRS …

Torsades de pointes: a case with multiple variables

IA Khan, MT Win, AJ Bali, BC Vasavada… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
Torsades de pointes is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that displays a unique
electrocardiographic feature of twisting of the mean electrical axis of QRS complexes around …

Electrophysiologic mechanisms involved in the development of torsades de pointes

SG Priori, C Napolitano, PJ Schwartz - Cardiovascular drugs and therapy, 1991 - Springer
Torsades de pointes (TDP) is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia with a peculiar
electrocardiographic pattern of continuously changing morphology of the QRS complex …

Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, long QT syndrome, and torsades de pointes

R Passman, A Kadish - Medical Clinics of North America, 2001 - Elsevier
Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (PMVT) is defined as a ventricular rhythm faster than
100 beats/min characterized by clearly defined QRS complexes with frequent and rapid …

Electrophysiological mechanism of the characteristic electrocardiographic morphology of torsade de pointes tachyarrhythmias in the long-QT syndrome: detailed …

N El-Sherif, M Chinushi, EB Caref, M Restivo - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The long-QT syndrome (LQTS) is an electrophysiological (EP) entity
characterized by prolongation of cardiac repolarization and the occurrence of polymorphic …

Torsade de pointes: the clinical considerations

RM Gowda, IA Khan, SL Wilbur, BC Vasavada… - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Torsade de pointes is a form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia occurring in a setting of
prolonged QT interval on surface electrocardiogram. Congenital causes of prolonged QT …

Torsade de pointes

DM Roden - Clinical cardiology, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The polymorphic ventricular tachycardia torsade de pointes can occur in the congenital long
QT syndromes or as a consequence of therapy with QT‐prolonging drugs. The latter can …

The site of origin of torsade de pointes

EY Birati, B Belhassen, A Bardai, AAM Wilde, S Viskin - Heart, 2011 - heart.bmj.com
Objective The electrocardiographic (ECG) characteristics and mode of onset of torsade de
pointes (TdP) are well described. Less is known about the site of onset of this arrhythmia …

Torsade de pointes: mechanisms and management

C Napolitano, SG Priori, PJ Schwartz - Drugs, 1994 - Springer
Torsade de pointes is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia showing a peculiar
electrocardiographic pattern characterised by a continuous twisting in QRS axis around an …