title: Evaluation and management of patients with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.
abstract: This article reviews the current understanding of the mechanisms for polymorphic VT, its clinical manifestation, and therapies. The various idiopathic long QT syndromes and acquired forms of this entity are addressed, and a new syndrome of polymorphic VT associated with a normal heart and normal QT interval is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Moffitt Hospital, UCSF Medical Center 94143.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Grogin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scheinman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008133:Long QT Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*