Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular
tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.
Not exact matches
Patients
who experienced SCA related to sexual activity also had a higher rate of ventricular fibrillation /
tachycardia than those
who did not.
The boy
who provided the cells has CPVT (catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular
tachycardia), as do some of his relatives.
The research, published in the journal Nature, found that transplanting genetically engineered muscle cells into the hearts of mice
who had been induced to have heart attacks reduced the risk of a condition called ventricular
tachycardia.
This is particularly true for those
who are on certain types of medications or have preexisting heart conditions such as
tachycardia, which is a prolonged elevated heart rate, or arrhythmia, which is an abnormal heart rhythm.