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premature ventricular contraction

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Noun1.premature ventricular contraction - irregularity of cardiac rhythm; recurrent occurrences can be a precursor of ventricular fibrillation
arrhythmia, cardiac arrhythmia - an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart


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employed a multiple-classifier architecture composed of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) and Learning Vector Quantization (LMQ) to classify premature ventricular contraction (PVC) beats and the non-PVC beats [1].
Taxanes: Of the taxanes, the highest incidence of cardiotoxicity is associated with paclitaxel, which has been reported to cause sinus bradycardia, heart block, and premature ventricular contractions.
Twelve-lead electrocardiogram (QTc range 395-405 ms) showed frequent premature ventricular contractions with left bundle branch block morphology and inferior axis (Fig.
 
 
 
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