Ventricular Arrhythmia: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
What is a ventricular arrhythmia? A ventricular arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm that affects just the lower chambers of your heart. Those lower chambers are what drive the heart’s ability to pump blood throughout the body.
What Is Ventricular Arrhythmia? - Healthline
2024年6月26日 · Ventricular arrhythmia (VA) is an abnormal heart rhythm that begins in the ventricles, the heart’s two lower chambers. The rhythm may be too fast or too uncoordinated for the heart...
Heart arrhythmia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2023年10月13日 · A type of arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation can cause a dramatic drop in blood pressure. This can cause the person to fall to the ground within seconds, also called collapse. Soon the person's breathing and pulse will stop. Ventricular fibrillation is an emergency that needs immediate medical help.
Types of Ventricular Arrhythmia | Stanford Health Care
Ventricular arrhythmias are abnormal heartbeats that originate in your lower heart chambers, called ventricles. These types of arrhythmias cause your heart to beat too fast, which prevents oxygen-rich blood from circulating to the brain and body and may result in cardiac arrest.
Ventricular tachycardia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2024年3月6日 · Ventricular tachycardia is a type of irregular heartbeat, called an arrhythmia. It starts in the lower chambers of the heart, called the ventricles. This condition also may be called V-tach or VT. A healthy heart typically beats about 60 to 100 times a minute at rest.
Ventricular Arrhythmias I Ohio State Medical Center
Ventricular arrhythmias are abnormal rapid heart rhythms that start in the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles). Ventricular arrhythmias include ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
Ventricular Arrhythmia - The Cardiology Advisor
2022年12月5日 · Ventricular arrhythmia is a condition where the pumping of the heart ventricles is abnormal. Ventricular arrhythmias produce a broad range of conditions, from premature ventricular complex to ventricular fibrillation. The clinical presentations can vary, from lack of symptoms to cardiac arrest. 1
Understanding Arrhythmia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options - WebMD
2023年10月4日 · Arrhythmias are classified based on where they happen. If they start in the ventricles, the lower chambers of your heart, they’re called ventricular. When they begin in the atria, the upper...
Arrhythmia - American Heart Association
The term “arrhythmia” refers to any problem in the rate and/or rhythm of a person’s heartbeat. During an arrhythmia, changes in heart tissue and activity, or in the heart’s electrical impulses, may cause the heartbeat to be too fast, too slow or erratic. This is …
Arrhythmias - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2023年6月5日 · Tachyarrhythmia is defined as an abnormal rhythm with a ventricular heart rate of 100 beats per minute or more. It can be further classified based on the origin of the arrhythmia into: Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT): Arrhythmia originating from above the AV node (from atrial origin or AV junction origin).