Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 79-year-old man in relatively good health. I don’t take any medications. I recently visited a cardiologist regarding some heart palpitations that I have been experiencing. After ...
Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...
Even minor ECG abnormalities detected with annual checks signal a greater risk of future CVD events, a study of several million working-age people affirms, although questions remain about whether ...
Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is an abnormal heart rhythm where the bottom chambers of your heart beat too quickly. People with severe cases may experience sudden cardiac arrest. Conditions that ...
But that is not the big story. The big story is the marked rise in fake atrial fibrillation (AF) and other faulty ECG interpretations. Fake AF occurs when the computer calls the rhythm AF, the doctor ...
Correspondence to Ricardo Stein, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Brazil; rstein{at}cardiol.br Objectives To evaluate the prevalence of abnormal ECG findings and ...
QRS interval widening appears to be highly specific for the diagnosis of hyperkalemia in patients with end-stage kidney disease. ECG changes, in general, have poor sensitivities for hyperkalemia in ...