Key points A 68-year-old woman from rural Ontario arrived at her local emergency department with worsening palpitations. Her medical history included breast cancer treated with surgical resection and ...

Here, we describe a large four-generation family with an autosomal dominant condition, comprising various types of CHD and low atrial rhythm, a unique phenotype not described before within a family. A ...

Abstract This is the last in a three-part series on using an electrocardiogram to assess the heart’s electrical activity. In this article, the focus is on cardiac rhythm and conduction abnormalities ...

MANY common arrhythmias observed in both atria and ventricles are similar although the atrial types have a few important distinguishing features. Thus, so far as therapy is concerned, the atrial ...

The authors' work is supported by the European Network for Translational Research in Atrial Fibrillation (EUTRAF, No. 261057), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (AF Competence ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained atrial arrhythmia, is more common in men and the prevalence increases with increasing age. [2] AF can be paroxysmal (episodes terminate in less ...

A 62 year old male with a history of hypertension presents with intermittent palpitations. He began to have the palpitations in clinic and below is his ECG. What are the ECG findings? Atrial ...

Sinus rhythm (a.k.a. normal sinus rhythm) refers to the normal heart beat originating from the sinoatrial node. This is manifested as an upright P wave in lead II of the ECG. Sinus bradycardia occurs ...