An Elderly Woman With Ventricular Tachycardia

Amr Idris; João L Cavalcante; David Lin

doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2023.3580

An Elderly Woman With Ventricular Tachycardia

JAMA Cardiol. 2023 Dec 1;8(12):1183-1184. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.3580.

Authors

Amr Idris¹, João L Cavalcante¹, David Lin¹

Affiliation

¹ Minneapolis Heart Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

PMID: 37851453
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.3580

No abstract available

Plain language summary

A woman in her 90s presented to the emergency department with fever, hemoptysis, and syncopal episodes. An electrocardiogram showed monomorphic ventricular tachycardia with a morphology suggesting right ventricular (RV) origin. What would you do next?

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Aged
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Female
Humans
Tachycardia, Ventricular* / diagnosis
Tachycardia, Ventricular* / etiology
Tachycardia, Ventricular* / therapy