Supraventricular tachycardia in patients without overt preexcitation. 1986

W M Miles, and E N Prystowsky

In this article, the authors discuss the features and differential diagnosis of supraventricular tachycardia with a regular ventricular rate that occurs in patients without overt preexcitation during sinus rhythm. In the authors' experience, the two most common mechanisms of these tachycardias are reentry within the atrioventricular node (AV nodal reentry) and atrioventricular reentry using a concealed accessory pathway for retrograde conduction and the AV node/His-Purkinje system for antegrade conduction (AV reentry). Sinus nodal reentry, intra-atrial reentry, automatic atrial tachycardia, and nonparoxysmal junctional tachycardia account for the remaining episodes of regular supraventricular tachycardia. Therapy for AV and AV nodal reentry is also discussed.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D004568 Electrodiagnosis Diagnosis of disease states by recording the spontaneous electrical activity of tissues or organs or by the response to stimulation of electrically excitable tissue. Electrodiagnoses
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013611 Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Abnormally rapid heartbeats caused by reentry of atrial impulse into the dual (fast and slow) pathways of ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE. The common type involves a blocked atrial impulse in the slow pathway which reenters the fast pathway in a retrograde direction and simultaneously conducts to the atria and the ventricles leading to rapid HEART RATE of 150-250 beats per minute. Atrioventricular Nodal Re-Entrant Tachycardia,Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia,Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia,Tachycardia, AV Nodal Reentrant,AV Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia,Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia,Atrioventricular Nodal Re Entrant Tachycardia,Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardias,Reentrant Tachycardia, Atrioventricular,Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Reentrant
D013617 Tachycardia, Supraventricular A generic expression for any tachycardia that originates above the BUNDLE OF HIS. Supraventricular Tachycardia,Supraventricular Tachycardias,Tachycardias, Supraventricular

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