Ventricular flutter
Medical condition
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Ventricular flutter is an arrhythmia, more specifically a tachycardia affecting the ventricles with a rate over 250-350 beats/min, and one of the most indiscernible. It is characterized on the ECG by a sinusoidal waveform without clear definition of the QRS and T waves. It has been considered as a possible transition stage between ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation, and is a critically unstable arrhythmia that can result in sudden cardiac death.[citation needed]
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| Specialty | Cardiology  |
It can occur in infancy,[1] youth,[2] or as an adult.
It can be induced by programmed electrical stimulation.[3][4]
