controlling heart rate and rhythm assessing stroke risk assessing risk of bleeding Atrial fibrillation vs. flutter Sometimes, AFib can be confused with flutters. The symptoms are similar, including rapid heart rate and irregular pulse. While both affect the same heart chambers and result in arrhythmi...
Patient Selection Is Critical in Rate or Rhythm Control of Atrial Fibrillation or FlutterYen-Ting Yeh MDAi-Hsien Li MD, PhDYen-Wen Wu MD, PhDAnnals of Emergency Medicine
Atrial flutter is a type of abnormal heart rhythm that causes a rapid but regular heartbeat. It can lead to severe complications without treatment from a doctor. Atrial flutter occurs when the upper chambers of the heart, or atria, beat much faster than the ventricles, which are the lower...
Atrial fibrillation (Afib) and ventricular fibrillation (Vfib) are both a type of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia). Atrial fibrillation is caused by irregular electrical impulses in the atria and ventricular fibrillation is caused by irregular electric
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Heart problems.Serious heart rhythm problems (ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, and atrial flutter), heart failure and death have happened in people treated with IMBRUVICA®, especially in people who have an infection, an increased risk for heart disease, or have had heart rhythm problem...
Arrhythmias can feel like flutters or butterflies in your chest or that your heart is racing or pounding. Heart arrhythmias can also cause the heart rhythm to slow down or skip. Most of the time, they are harmless, but they can signify something more serious. ...
Potassium channel blockers, such as Tikosyn (Dofetilide) and Betapace (Sorine, Sotylize, and Sotalol), can help in controlling AFib by slowing down electrical signals that cause irregular heart rhythm. Procedures to treat AFib: Sometimes, if medicines do not work or if they cause side effects...
I'm thirteen and my heart has always beat a little faster than usual, but after a few years, it's really started acting up. Once in a while my heart will skip a few beats, jump from normal to rapid, or just beat with an irregular rhythm for a few seconds, even when I'm not ...
I'm thirteen and my heart has always beat a little faster than usual, but after a few years, it's really started acting up. Once in a while my heart will skip a few beats, jump from normal to rapid, or just beat with an irregular rhythm for a few seconds, even when I'm not ...