Diseases

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.

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Abstract

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.

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3 entry terms
  • Tachycardias
  • Tachyarrhythmia
  • Tachyarrhythmias

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified: prefer specific types; exercise tachycardia = HEART RATE (IM) + PHYSICAL EXERTION (NIM)

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  1. C14w.280w.067w.845w
  2. C14w.280w.123.875w
  3. C23.550.073w.845w

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NLM Classification

WG 330.5.T2

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Tachycardia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013610. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013610
  2. Tachycardia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachycardia
  3. Tachycardia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209583