Atrial flutter
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Term | Atrial flutter |
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Description | Rapid, irregular atrial contractions due to an abnormality of atrial excitation. |
Definition | Atrial flutter
Rapid, irregular atrial contractions caused by a block of electrical impulse conduction in the right atrium and a reentrant wave front traveling up the inter-atrial septum and down the right atrial free wall or vice versa. |
References | 1. NCBI, MeSH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=mesh&term=AtrialFlutter |
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