Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Tachycardia > Tachycardia, Ventricular > Torsades de Pointes
... > Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Tachycardia > Tachycardia, Ventricular > Torsades de Pointes
... > Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Cardiac Conduction System Disease > Tachycardia > Tachycardia, Ventricular > Torsades de Pointes

Preferred term

Torsades de Pointes  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • de Pointes, Torsade
  • Pointes, Torsade de
  • Torsade de Pointes

Note

  • in translation, "torsade" or "torsades" is acceptable: use word of author

Scope note

  • A malignant form of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that is characterized by HEART RATE between 200 and 250 beats per minute, and QRS complexes with changing amplitude and twisting of the points. The term also describes the syndrome of tachycardia with prolonged ventricular repolarization, long QT intervals exceeding 500 milliseconds or BRADYCARDIA. Torsades de pointes may be self-limited or may progress to VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.

History note

  • 91; was see TACHYCARDIA 1983-90

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016171

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 4/24/90, last modified 6/20/17