Ventricular tachycardia causes

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Common Causes Across All Ages

• Congestive heart failure
• Hypokalemia
• Hypomagnesemia
• STEMI

Common Causes Among Patients Under 35 Years of Age

• Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Long QT syndrome
• Myocarditis
• Short QT syndrome
• Short QT syndrome type 1
• Short QT syndrome type 2
• Short QT syndrome type 3
• Short QT syndrome type 4
• Short QT syndrome type 5

Causes of Ventricular Tachycardia in Alphabetical Order

Acidosis Acid-base disturbances Acute coronary syndrome Acute starvation Alimemazine Almokalant Amiodarone Amitriptyline Amphetamines Andersen cardiodysrhythmic periodic paralysis Anorexia nervosa Antiarrhythmics Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia Arsenic trioxide Arsenicals Asenapine Astemizole AV block Azimilide Azithromycin Bepridil Bretylium Budipine Caffeine Cardiomyopathy Cardioversion Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia Channelopathies Chloroquine Cibenzoline Cisapride Citalopram Clomipramine Clozapine Cocaine Congenital Heart Disease Congestive heart failure Crizotinib Defibrillation Desipramine Digitalis Diphenhydramine Disopyramide Dofetilide Dolasetron Doxepin Dronedarone Droperidol Electrolyte imbalance Electrophysiologic studies Eribulin mesylate Fluconazole Grepafloxacin Halofantrine Haloperidol Heart surgery Hyperkalaemia Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Hypocalcemia Hypoglycaemia Hypokalemia Hypomagnesemia Hypothermia Hypothyroidism Hypoxia Ibutilide Imipramine Indapamide Inotropes Ischaemic heart disease Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome Ketanserin Ketoconazole Lidoflazine

Long QT Syndrome Lubeluzole Methadone Methadyl acetate Methamphetamine Midodrine Mizolastine Moxifloxacin Myocardial Infarction Myocarditis Myotonic dystrophy Naratriptan Nicardipine Nilotinib NSTEMI Obstructive sleep apnea Ondansetron Pasireotide Pazopanib Pentamidine Phenothiazines Pimozide Piperaquine Prenylamine Probucol Procainamide Propoxyphene Pulmonary artery catheter Quinidine Quinine Ranolazine Retigabine Right heart catheterisation Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia Ritodrine Ritonavir Romano-Ward syndrome Saquinavir Sertindole Short QT syndrome Short QT syndrome type 1 Short QT syndrome type 2 Short QT syndrome type 3 Short QT syndrome type 4 Short QT syndrome type 5 Sleep apnea Sotalol Sparfloxacin STEMI Sympathomimetic agents Tedisamil Telithromycin Terfenadine Terodiline Tetrabenazine Thioridazine Timothy syndrome Torsade de pointes Unstable angina Valvular heart disease Vandetanib Vemurafenib Venlafaxine Ventricular aneurysm Vernakalant Voriconazole Vorinostat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome Zero gravity Ziprasidone Zotepine Zuclopenthixol

• Acidosis
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Amphetamines
• Antiarrhythmics
• Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• Caffeine
• Cardiomyopathy
• Cardioversion
• Cocaine
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Congestive heart failure
• Defibrillation
• Droperidol
• Electrolyte imbalance
• Heart attack
• Heart surgery
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Hypocalcemia
• Hypokalemia
• Hypomagnesia
• Hypoxia
• Ischemic heart disease
• Iatrogenic due to pulmonary artery catheter, right heart catheterization, or electrophysiologic sutdy
• Inotropes
• Long QT Syndrome
• Methamphetamine
• Myocardial Infarction
• Myocarditis
• NSTEMI
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Phenothiazines
• Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia
• Short QT syndrome
• Short QT syndrome type 1
• Short QT syndrome type 2
• Short QT syndrome type 3
• Short QT syndrome type 4
• Short QT syndrome type 5
• Sleep apnea
• STEMI
• Sympathomimetic agents
• Valvular heart disease
• Ventricular aneurysm
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome