BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia of the heart with a prevalence of approximately 2% in the western world. Atrial flutter, another arrhythmia, occurs less often with an incidence of approximately 200,000 new patients per year in the USA. Patients with atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter have an increased risk of death and morbidities. In the management of atrial fi...

Cocaine is one of the commonest illicit drugs used and most frequent causes drug related deaths. Cardiovascular system effects due to cocaine manifests as a variety structural heart issues along with arrhythmias. Atrial flutter common cause morbidity in United States population. Even though research has been sparse on topic use atrial flutter, they have shown be linked. We present here unique c...

Pervenous electrical stimulation of the right atrium was successful in converting 15 episodes of supraventricular tachyarrhythmia in 9 of 15 patients. This included 13 conversions of atrial flutter, one each of atrial tachycardia and junctional tachycardia. The procedure was performed at the bedside, without complication', using intracardiac electrography to direct catheter position. Indirect e...

We describe a case of post-incisional atrial tachycardia resembling typical atrial flutter on the surface ECG. Typical atrial flutter reentry was ruled out by the results of activation and entrainment mapping. Nevertheless, overdrive pacing from the lateral edge of the cavo-tricuspid isthmus produced tachycardia entrainment with concealed fusion associated with post-pacing and stimulus-to-P wav...

Distinctive electrocardiographic patterns for atrial fibrillation, sinus rhythm and atrial extrasystoles, sinus arrhythmia and atrial flutter were found by analysing the frequency distribution of cycle lengths of the electrocardiogram. Frequency distribution analysis, demonstrated that atrial fibrillation is not completely irregular, but shows more long cycles than expected by chance and often ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIM Remote magnetic navigation has proved to be effective in the ablation of most supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. Initial studies reported worse results with this system compared to conventional ablation for atrial flutter. The aim of this study was to assess the acute and long-term success of atrial flutter ablation with remote magnetic navigation and to retrospe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Identifying paroxysmal atrial fibrillation/flutter is an essential part of the etiological workup of patients with ischemic stroke. However, there is controversy in the literature regarding the use of noninvasive cardiac rhythm monitoring with previous reviews reporting a low detection rate with routine monitoring. We performed a systematic review to determine the frequen...

BACKGROUND There are few recommendations about the use of cardiac markers in the investigation and management of atrial fibrillation/flutter. Currently, it is unknown how many patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter undergo troponin testing, and how positive troponin results are managed in the emergency department. We sought to look at the emergency department troponin utilization patterns. ...

Background and Purpose—Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) is a rare inherited disorder associated with cardiac involvement. We investigated the spectrum and relevance of the cardiac manifestations of EDMD, focusing on bradyarrhythmias and tachyarrhythmias (including atrial fibrillation/flutter), embolic stroke, and heart failure. Methods and Results—Eighteen patients (age 42.8 19.6 years)...

OBJECTIVE Total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) is a routine operation for palliation of children with cardiac anomalies in whom biventricular repair is impossible. The original technique consists of the creation of a semi-prosthetic intercaval tunnel. A substantial proportion of these patients develop atrial flutter. We developed a technique for creating an intercaval tunnel that uses the tiss...