BVT, Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia in poisoning

 

Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia in poisoning – recent nine articles

-        QRS axis shifts 180 degrees from left to right with each alternate beat

-        Causes: severe digoxin toxicity; or familial catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), herbal aconite poisoning. Caffeine poisoning.

 

Year	Country	age	gender	Substance	References
2021	USA	78	F	Dogoxin	1
2019	Japan	27	F	Caffeine	2
2016	China	45	F	Aconitine	3
2014	Italy	83	F	Digoxin	4
2012	Japan	43	F	Aconitine	5
2009	Belgium	54	M	Digoxin	6
2005	France	86	F	Digoxin	7
2005	USA	59	F	Aconite	8
1992	Japan	69	M	Aconite	9

 

References

 

1.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34159036/

2.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31623982/

3.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26604120/

4.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25221680/

5.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30533117/

6.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19761942/

7.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16050845/

8.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15635326/

9.     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1439251/ 

 

Edited by Yu-Jang Su  March 25, 2023