Ventricular tachycardia can also be the result of conditions that contribute independently to abnormal heart rhythms even ...

Ventricular tachycardia refers to a wide QRS complex heart rhythm — that is, a QRS duration beyond 120 milliseconds — originating in the ventricles at a rate of greater than 100 beats per minute.

In Gottfried's case, he had ventricular tachycardia, "which is an abnormal heart rhythm where the rhythm of the heart is generated from the ventricle as opposed to from the atrium," Haythe explains.

An idioventricular rhythm is very similar to ventricular tachycardia except the ventricular rate is less than 60 beats per minute. All other characteristics of VT apply; this includes the presence ...

Steve Strba credits a golf club pro with saving his life.After Strba collapsed on a Toronto golf course in cardiac arrest - his heart stopping for ...