Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormal and fast heart rhythm disorder that arises from the lower chambers of the heart, which are called the ventricles. It can be felt as some chest discomfort, difficulty breathing, episodes or near-fainting, or fully, frankly fainting, and in very dangerous conditions it can also lead to death. Our first approach is to try to optimize the heart tissue and make it as strong as possible with the use of the best medications for that individual. After that, there are a class of medications called anti-arrhythmic drugs that can suppress these irregular heart rhythm circuits, and prevent them from firing. And then we also have ablation procedures where we find the regions of scar where the electrical routes are short circuiting and causing the ventricular tachycardia. Once we determine those regions of scar, we perform ablations, or destroy that area by applying thermal lesions so that those areas cannot keep firing. And sometimes itŐs a combination. It requires the best optimization of the heart. It requires anti-arrhythmic drugs. And it requires ablation procedures. So no two patients have the same kind of ventricular arrhythmia. I believe UVA does a really fantastic job with ventricular tachycardia management because this condition is complex, and this condition requires very close coordination and input from not just the electrophysiologists, but also the heart failure doctors, the imaging experts. Imaging procedures like cardiac MRI, which are done even with patients with defibrillators here at UVA. And thatŐs not the case in most centers across the country.