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Suggest Treatment For Ventricular Tachycardia
My father had a heart attack and did not know it until weeks later when his beats were so off, he went to emergency room. He was in vtack and in trauma unit within minutes. They put a stent in on right bottom side of heart. He was in ICU after that for about a week with a few episodes of the vtach agian. Hes home now but his heart is constantly acting up and the doctor keeps telling him its normal. Hes not so convinced. Should he get a second opinion? And is this so normal that they wouldnt ask him to come in for testing? He has made 10 phone calls and he gets same answer over and over agian. Please help!
Tue, 24 Jan 2017
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The increase in heart could be due to multiple reasons, it may be normal or abnormal. Ventricular tachycardia is usually a life threatening condition and patients will be very symptomatic and frequently collapses. Now, best thing to clear doubts is get a holter monitoring done, it will record the ecg for 24-48 hrs and we will come to know the state of heart during his symptoms so that we can modify the treatment.
The increase in heart could be due to multiple reasons, it may be normal or abnormal. Ventricular tachycardia is usually a life threatening condition and patients will be very symptomatic and frequently collapses. Now, best thing to clear doubts is get a holter monitoring done, it will record the ecg for 24-48 hrs and we will come to know the state of heart during his symptoms so that we can modify the treatment.
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