A 75-year-old woman with dextrocardia, situs inversus, and subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). This SVT was easily inducible during ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive disease characterized by vascular proliferation and remodeling in the pulmonary vasculature. In recent years, various treatments have been introduced that ...

Atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) can trigger atrial fibrillation (AF), but the incidence of AVNRT as a cause of AF is unclear. Identification of patients with AVNRT could improve ...

Supraventricular tachycardia is a term used to describe any heart rhythm that is greater than 100 beats per minute originating from above the AV node (the atrium). The term “SVT” can be confusing at ...

AVNRT commonly affects young, healthy women without structural heart disease. 5 Common tachycardic risk factors include drug induction, caffeine, prior history of heart disease, alcohol use, stress, ...

There's a common heart condition that many patients don't know they have until they end up in the emergency room. It happened to our very own Stephanie Bennett last year when she was diagnosed with ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: What is the difference between NSVT and AVNRT? I am a 69-year-old female taking metoprolol once a day. — T.A. DEAR T.A.: Medical abbreviations are confusing. Even when I spell them out ...

A 75-year-old woman with situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia, a patent foramen ovale (PFO), and a double-chamber right ventricle with subpulmonic outflow obstruction presented with highly symptomatic ...