Diseases

Ventricular Flutter

A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia characterized by an extremely rapid, hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (150-300 beats/min) with a large oscillating sine-wave appearance. If untreated, ventricular flutter typically progresses to VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.

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Abstract

A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia characterized by an extremely rapid, hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (150-300 beats/min) with a large oscillating sine-wave appearance. If untreated, ventricular flutter typically progresses to VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.

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  • Ventricular Flutters

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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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do not confuse with VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION

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History Note

2008

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  1. C14w.280w.067w.961w
  2. C23.550.073w.961w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Ventricular Flutter. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054141. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054141
  2. Ventricular Flutter. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_flutter
  3. Ventricular Flutter. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460864