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Ventricular tachycardia often occurs secondary to a scar after a heart attack or other heart disease. Ventricular tachycardia onset is eventually in the first months after the infarction, but may also come several years later. Ventricular tachycardia can progress to ventricular fibrillation untreated ventricular fibrillation leading to death.

Crucial for long-term outlook is the function of the left ventricle. Ventricular tachycardia of unknown cause may be seen occasionally in younger patients (only present at times) and have a good prognosis the ventricular tachyarrhythmias in symptomatic patients with diseases of the heart, heart valve disease or heart muscle disease, the prognosis serious. Transient ventricular tachycardia occurring early throughout an acute myocardial infarction, have a good prognosis. It sustained ventricular tachycardia complicating a chronic heart disease, have a poor prognosis. A special type of ventricular tachycardia with a rough axis (for impulse wire) that is often drug-induced, have a poor prognosis.

Ventricular fibrillation in conjunction with a heart attack is a serious condition with imminent death.

Complications

• Sudden death

• Brain damage due to lack of oxygen supply

• Fall Injuries in fainting

• Worsening of heart disease caused by narrow coronary arteries and poor blood supply to heart muscle.