Tubercular myocarditis presenting with ventricular tachycardia

davidd submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (www.nature.com)

A previously fit and healthy 30-year-old man reported experiencing palpitations accompanied by nausea, sweating and presyncope. These symptoms were found to be associated with episodes of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. The article represents the diagnosis and management of tubercular myocarditis.

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Be safe: Heart disease often misdiagnosed

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.cnn.com)

When you complained of heart palpitations, just be still , maybe it was just nerves.
Although research shows that women may not be diagnosed or treated as aggressively as men, more women than men die of heart disease each year. more research on women and heart disease, since about 25 percent of subjects in cardiac studies are female. And according to a new report from the Mayo Clinic, most of these studies don't segregate statistics by gender, so it's hard to learn much about women and heart disease

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