INTRODUCTION The sensation of palpitations may either be the initial or the only symptom of cardiac arrhythmia. We describe a case of an apparent clear temporal relationship between standard ibuprofen dosing and palpitations. A review of the medical literature revealed this to be, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case of this type. CASE PRESENTATION A 13-year-old Caucasian gir...

CONTEXT Many patients have palpitations and seek advice from general practitioners. Differentiating benign causes from those resulting from clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia can be challenging and the clinical examination may aid in this process. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the accuracy of historical features, physical examination, and cardiac testing for the diagnosis of cardi...

CLINICAL INTRODUCTION A 48-year-old male patient with a history of New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II dyspnoea for the last 2 years presented with acute onset breathlessness associated with orthopnoea and palpitations. The symptom aggravation was abrupt with simultaneous occurrence of both dyspnoea and palpitations. After medical stabilisation, the neck pulsations were as shown in onlin...

We descrive a patient who presents palpitations during cardiac rehabilitation after mitral valvuloplasty. ECG showed regular narrow QRS tachycardia compatible with Atrioventricular Node Reentrant Tachycardia. After slow pathway radiofrequency catheter ablation, the patient completed the rehabilitation program remained tachycardia and palpitations-free.

AIMS SYNARR-Flash study (Monitoring of SYNcopes and/or sustained palpitations of suspected ARRhythmic origin) is an international, multicentre, observational, prospective trial designed to evaluate the role of external 4-week electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring in clinical work-up of unexplained syncope and/or sustained palpitations of suspected arrhythmic origin. METHODS AND RESULTS Consecuti...

Two patients were presented, and two previously unreported observations were made. Patient 1, a 50 year old man with episodic palpitations and dizziness for 10 years, exhibited initiation of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) by atrial fibrillation (AF). Patient 2, a 43 year old woman with a structurally normal heart but recurrent palpitations for one year, demonstrated fusion and capture ...