Ventricular tachycardia causes

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-in Chief: Avirup Guha, M.B.B.S.[2]

Causes

Common Causes

Across All Ages

• Congestive heart failure
• Hypokalemia
• Hypomagnesemia
• STEMI

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 by Organ System

Cardiovascular	No underlying causes
Chemical / poisoning	No underlying causes
Dermatologic	No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect	No underlying causes
Ear Nose Throat	No underlying causes
Endocrine	No underlying causes
Environmental	No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic	No underlying causes
Genetic	No underlying causes
Hematologic	No underlying causes
Iatrogenic	No underlying causes
Infectious Disease	No underlying causes
Musculoskeletal / Ortho	No underlying causes
Neurologic	No underlying causes
Nutritional / Metabolic	No underlying causes
Obstetric/Gynecologic	No underlying causes
Oncologic	No underlying causes
Opthalmologic	No underlying causes
Overdose / Toxicity	No underlying causes
Psychiatric	No underlying causes
Pulmonary	No underlying causes
Renal / Electrolyte	No underlying causes
Rheum / Immune / Allergy	No underlying causes
Sexual	No underlying causes
Trauma	No underlying causes
Urologic	No underlying causes
Dental	No underlying causes
Miscellaneous	No underlying causes

Causes 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