[Narrow QRS tachycardia]. 2004

Robert Frank
Unité de rythmologie, Institut de cardiologie, groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris Cedex 13. frank.robert@wanadoo.fr

Narrow QRS tachycardia are supraventricular tachycardia, atrial tachycardia or junctional tachycardia. The diagnosis is done with the ECG, after identification of atrial activation, eventually after vagal manoeuvres, and transoesophageal recordings. DC Choc, atrial pacing, or antiarrhythmic drugs can do interruption. All atrial tachycardia must be anticoagulated prior regularisation. There is seldom an emergency for regularisation, as drugs can always slow the ventricular rate down. Prevention of relapses uses oral antiarrhythmic drugs, sometimes pacing. Most of these tachycardia can be cured by catheter ablation, essentially flutter and junctional tachycardia.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013610 Tachycardia Abnormally rapid heartbeat, usually with a HEART RATE above 100 beats per minute for adults. Tachycardia accompanied by disturbance in the cardiac depolarization (cardiac arrhythmia) is called tachyarrhythmia. Tachyarrhythmia,Tachyarrhythmias,Tachycardias

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