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Heart Palpitations Causes When to worry about heart palpitations
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Palpitation can be defined as Unpleasant awareness of forceful, rapid or irregular beating of the heart. • The main characteristic of palpitation is feeling that your heart is beating too quickly or not regularly. • Palpitations is one of the most common symptom patients complaining. • In 81 % of palpitations is caused by arrythmia. • Palpitations usually benign, but some cases, it can be caused by life threating arrythmias. • In many cases, Best diagnostic test to evaluate Palpitation is ECG. • If palpitations lasts less then 5 minutes and Person has family or personal history of Panic disorder, palpitation can be because of fear and stress and not because of arrythmia. • Palpitations that start and stop abruptly suggests supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia. • If termination of palpitation possible using vagal maneurs, e.g. Valsalva maneur, it suggests supraventricular tachycardia. • Valsalva maneuver is performed by a forceful attempt of exhalation. closing one's mouth and pinching one's nose shut while expelling air out as if blowing up a balloon. • Three common description exist of Palpitations: • 1. Flip-flopping or start and stop, such type of palpitation commonly caused by premature contraction of atrium or ventricle. • Premature ventricular contractions are extra, abnormal heartbeats that begin in the ventricles, and disrupt your regular heart rhythm, sometimes causing you to feel a skipped beat. • 2. Rapid Flattering in the chest, suggests supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias, including sinus tachycardia. . • If fluttering is irregular nature, then it suggests atrial fibrillation. • 3. Pounding in the neck , such type of palpitation occurs when the right atrium contracts against closed tricuspid valve. • If palpitations are associated with chest pain, it indicates ischemic heart disease. • If chest pain relieved by leaning forward it can be pericarditis. • If palpitations are accompanied by light-headedness and presyncope it suggest hypotension and can be dangerous and life threatening. • If palpitations occurs during physical exertion it can be hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. • If palpitation was preceded by vomiting and diarrhea, it can be caused by electrolyte imbalance. • Weight loss, heat intolerance and palpitations indicates hyprthiroidism. • Palpitations plus flushing, episodes of hypertension, anxiety, sweating, headaches it can indicate pheochromocytoma. • Energy drinks, cigarette and e cigarettes can also cause palpitations especially among Youngs. • Caffeine, tea, coffee, marijuana, Cocaine and amphetamines, also cause palpitations. • Treatment: • Treatment of palpitation is depend on the underlying cause. • Radiofrequency ablation can cure most types of supraventricular and many types of ventricular tachycardias. • • By Johnorchard - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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