Ventricular tachycardia articles from across Nature Portfolio

The use of E-cigarettes has increased despite the unknown long-term effects. Here the authors show that e-cigarette aerosols alter cardiac conduction, repolarization, and autonomic regulation in mice, contingent on the chemical composition of e-liquids and partly through parasympathetic modulation.

In a combined computational and multi-center clinical study to investigate the effects of adipose fat tissue infiltration on ventricular arrhythmias, Sung et al. show that infiltrating adipose tissue, as opposed to scar, is the main cause of infarcted-related ventricular arrhythmias by slowing cardiac conduction in critical sites.

Popescu et al. developed a deep learning approach that blends neural networks and survival analysis to predict patient-specific survival curves from raw contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance images and clinical covariates for patients with ischemic heart disease to offer accurate arrhythmic sudden death predictions.