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Supraventricular Tachycardia in Pulmonary Hypertension
Duy Thai Nguyen1, Melvin Scheinman
1Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU East 4, Box 1354, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Abstract:
Pulmonary hypertension is a disease with significant morbidity and mortality. It is characterized by right-sided volume and pressure overload, which leads to structural changes and fibrosis in the right atrium, thus predisposing to supraventricular arrhythmias. This article presents a case discussion of supraventricular tachycardia in pulmonary hypertension. A 48-year-old woman, with a history of primary pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, was admitted with a supraventricular tachycardia, hypotension, and congestive heart failure.
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