Calcium polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: a new name for CPVT?

Calcium polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: a new name for CPVT?

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is an inherited disease characterized by adrenergically mediated ventricular tachyarrhythmia leading to syncope and sudden cardiac death. Patients with CPVT show ventricular tachycardia during exercise or emotional stress in the absence of any structural heart disease. Also, any increase in the levels of circulating catecholamines (du...

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT)

Establishing a System for Viral Delivered Gene Therapy as a Treatment for CPVT Kurtzwald-Josefson, Efrat Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), a lethal human arrhythmia

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol is available at http://circep.ahajournals.org DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.962027 Received July 28, 2011; accepted December 15, 2011. From the AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat, Service de Cardiologie et Centre de Référence des Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires, Paris, France (A.L., I.D.); INSERM, U698, Paris, France (A.L.); Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, Franc...

Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia.

Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is a rare cause of exercise-induced arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death in the pediatric patient. This arrhythmia is difficult to diagnose in the emergency department, given the range of presentations; thus, a familiarity with and high index of suspicion for this pathology are crucial. Furthermore, recognition of the characteristic electroca...