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MMVT
(redirected from Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia)

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MMVTMonomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
MMVTMid-Mon Valley Transit (Charleroi, PA)


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6-8) Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine describes 12 patients in whom diagnostic or therapeutic interventions were initiated as a direct result of misdiagnosed artifacts; for example, monomorphic ventricular tachycardia in 5 patients and polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in 7 patients.
In this paper, we construct two distinct profiles of patients with cocaine-induced arrhythmias (overdose situations--slow monomorphic ventricular tachycardia and recreational users--torsade de pointes) based upon published case reports combined with cocaine's basic effects on conduction and ion channels (fast on-off potassium blockade at low concentrations and slow on-off sodium blockade at higher levels).
 
 
 
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