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Premature ventricular contraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Heart rate turbulence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heart Rate Turbulence (HRT) is the return to equilibrium of heart rate after a premature ventricular contraction (PVC). It consists of a brief speed-up in heart rate, followed by a slow decrease back...
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This can continue until a new premature ventricular beat causes a compensatory pause and 'resets' the system. ... Phase 4 aberration only occurs after prolonged pause. During such a pause (e.g. in second degree AV block) the fibers of the Purkinje system can 'hyper'-depolarize spontaneously. As their membrane potential...
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It can also result from physiologic stress and other causes of increased sympathetic nervous system tone. ... It can fail to conduct retrograde through the atrioventricular node, in which case it results in a compensatory pause. That is, the next P wave occurs at the same time as would be expected had the VPC not occurred.
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In infants, since their skull plates have not fused, it causes enlargement of the head, and there is a risk of brain ... compensatory pause; compensatory pause; compensatory pause; compensatory pause; compensatory pause; compensatory pause; compensatory polycythemia; compensatory polycythemia; compensatory polycythemia;
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Clinical studies of heart patients have demonstrated that ventricular tachyarrhythmia often is preceded by a foreshortened cardiac cycle length followed by a relatively long compensatory pause, thus producing in an abrupt short-to-long cycle length change.
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What causes a compe... ... compensatory pause n.; A pause in the heartbeat following an extrasystole that is long enough to compensate for the prematurity of the extrasystole. ... Search another word or see compensatory pause on Thesaurus | Reference...
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