J Heart Stroke | Volume 2, Issue 1 | Review Article | Open Access

Management of Ventricular Tachycardia

Nadine Ali and Shahnaz Jamil-Copley^*

Department of Cardiology, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK

^*Correspondance to: Shahnaz Jamil-Copley 

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Abstract

Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Prognosis and management is dependent on the aetiology which can range from a normal heart to inherited cardiac channelopathies to structural heart disease including ischaemic heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy or cardiac sarcoidosis. Challenges posed by a young patient age in some pathologies and a limited cardiac reserve in others require careful assessment and consideration. This review article provides a summary overview of this large topic for cardiac and non-cardiac physicians with the aim of providing some insight into the more complex invasive management strategies undertaken by electrophysiologists in the treatment of VT.

Citation:

Ali N, Jamil-Copley S. Management of Ventricular Tachycardia. J Heart Stroke. 2017; 2(1): 1013.