Ventricular Tachycardia Quiz
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Unnati Patel, MD, MSc (Family Medicine)
Dr.Patel serves as Center Medical Director and a Primary Care Physician at Oak Street Health in Arizona. She graduated from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine prior to working in clinical research focused on preventive medicine at the University of Illinois and the University of Nevada. Dr. Patel earned her MSc in Global Health from Georgetown University, during which she worked with the WHO in Sierra Leone and Save the Children in Washington, D.C. She went on to complete her Family Medicine residency in Chicago at Norwegian American Hospital before completing a fellowship in Leadership in Value-based Care in conjunction with the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, where she earned her MBA. Dr. Patel’s interests include health tech and teaching medical students and she currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Medicine.
Tatsuya Shiraishi, MD (Cardiology)
Dr. Shiraishi graduated from the Kyoto University School of Medicine. He worked as a cardiologist at Edogawa Hospital, and after joining Ubie, he became the Director of East Nihonbashi Internal Medicine Clinic.
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Heart palpitations
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Fainting when walking
Feeling faint before losing consciousness
My heart is pounding
Tightness in the chest
Walking then suddenly fainted / passed out
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- Blacking out
- Feel anxiety suddenly
- Felt nauseous then fainted
- Irregular palpitations
- Sweating followed by fainting
- Chest pain on left side
- Fainting followed by a headache
- Irregular heartbeat while resting
- Chest pain with fainting
- Tight feeling in the chest
- Heart is beating fast and regularly
- Confused or drowsy for a while after recovering consciousness
- Chest pain when I breathe
- My heart races when I exercise
- Fainting when tired
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Try Free Symptom QuizWhat is Ventricular Tachycardia?
This is an abnormal heart rhythm where the lower heart chambers contract too quickly. As a result, there isn't enough time to fill these chambers with blood before it's pumped out to the body, and the body receives insufficient oxygenated blood. The cause isn't always known - it might be due to heart disease, heart tissue inflammation, or being born with structural heart problems.
Typical Symptoms of Ventricular Tachycardia
- Losing consciousness during a physical activity
- Losing consciousness
- History of heart failure
- Feel the heart is pounding
- Chest pain
- History of heart vessel blockage or heart attack
- Feeling lightheaded before losing consciousness
- Losing consciousness during or after meals
Diagnostic Questions for Ventricular Tachycardia
Your doctor may ask these questions to check for this disease:
- Did you faint while walking or doing something?
- Have you temporarily lost consciousness?
- Have you ever been diagnosed with heart problems?
- Is your heart pounding?
- Do you have chest pain?
Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
Sustained ventricular tachycardia is a potentially dangerous condition that needs treatment. This could involve medications to help the heart maintain a normal rhythm, a procedure to destroy the cells causing the ventricular tachycardia, an implanted device to monitor and correct abnormal rhythms, or, in some cases, surgery.
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References
Lo R, Chia KK, Hsia HH. Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Heart Disease. Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2017 Mar;9(1):25-46. doi: 10.1016/j.ccep.2016.10.013. PMID: 28167084.
https://www.cardiacep.theclinics.com/article/S1877-9182(16)30135-6/fulltextLawrie GM. Surgery for Ventricular Tachycardia. Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2021 Apr 5;17(1):36-42. doi: 10.14797/TESU5314. Epub 2021 Mar 25. PMID: 34104318; PMCID: PMC8158454.
https://journal.houstonmethodist.org/article/10.14797/TESU5314/Kobayashi Y. Idiopathic Ventricular Premature Contraction and Ventricular Tachycardia: Distribution of the Origin, Diagnostic Algorithm, and Catheter Ablation. J Nippon Med Sch. 2018;85(2):87-94. doi: 10.1272/jnms.2018_85-14. PMID: 29731502.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jnms/85/2/85_2018_85-14/_articleStevenson WG, McMaster WG, Kanagasundram A. Chemical ablation for ventricular tachycardia. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2021 Sep;32(9):2471-2472. doi: 10.1111/jce.15159. Epub 2021 Jul 21. PMID: 34288233.
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Reviewed By:
Unnati Patel, MD, MSc (Family Medicine)
Dr.Patel serves as Center Medical Director and a Primary Care Physician at Oak Street Health in Arizona. She graduated from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine prior to working in clinical research focused on preventive medicine at the University of Illinois and the University of Nevada. Dr. Patel earned her MSc in Global Health from Georgetown University, during which she worked with the WHO in Sierra Leone and Save the Children in Washington, D.C. She went on to complete her Family Medicine residency in Chicago at Norwegian American Hospital before completing a fellowship in Leadership in Value-based Care in conjunction with the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, where she earned her MBA. Dr. Patel’s interests include health tech and teaching medical students and she currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Medicine.
Tatsuya Shiraishi, MD (Cardiology)
Dr. Shiraishi graduated from the Kyoto University School of Medicine. He worked as a cardiologist at Edogawa Hospital, and after joining Ubie, he became the Director of East Nihonbashi Internal Medicine Clinic.
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