Ventricular Tachycardia: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Cardiovascular System (I00-I99).

  • Atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia (AVRT) – belongs to paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia and results in typical seizure-like episodes with tachycardia (heartbeat too fast: >100 beats per minute), dizziness, and possibly signs of acute heart failure (heart failure)
  • Extrasystoles (heart stutter) – heartbeat that occurs outside the physiological heart rhythm.
  • Ventricular flutter – life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia with rapid succession of relatively irregular ventricular action with a heart rate of 200 to 350/min; the transition to ventricular fibrillation is smooth.
  • Ventricular fibrillation – life-threatening pulseless cardiac arrhythmia, in which in the heart chambers disordered excitation run off and the heart muscle no longer contracts in an orderly manner.
  • Sinus tachycardia – increased heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute, which originates from the sinus node shit.
  • Atrial flutter – cardiac arrhythmia in which the atria of the heart beat irregularly 240-340 times per minute at rest the ventricles, on the other hand, usually more slowly
  • Atrial fibrillationcardiac arrhythmia with subordinate activity of the atria.