Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, ischaemic ventricular fibrillation, and torsade de pointes: importance of the QT and the coupling interval in the differential diagnosis.

Raphael RossoAviram HochstadtDana ViskinEhud ChorinArie Lorin SchwartzOholi Tovia-BrodieAvishag Laish-FarkashOfer HavakukLior GepsteinShmuel BanaiSami Viskin

Published in: European heart journal (2021)

The coupling interval helps discriminate between polymorphic VT that occurs despite a long QT interval (pseudo-TdP) and polymorphic arrhythmias striking because of a long QT (true TdP).

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