Mat Tachycardia Treatment

Intravenous verapamil for treatment of multifocal atrial tachycardia with and without calcium pretreatment.

Mat tachycardia treatment.

N engl j med. Multifocal atrial tachycardia mat overview. Treatment and or reversal of the precipitating cause may be all that is required for patients with multifocal atrial tachycardia mat. Atrial tachycardia is the least common type of supraventricular tachycardia.

Salerno dm anderson b sharkey pj iber c. What every physician needs to know. It is typically a transitional rhythm between frequent premature atrial complexes pacs and atrial flutter fibrillation. Multifocal atrial tachycardia mat is an arrhythmia that can be seen in a variety of clinical disorders in addition to a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute the characteristic electrocardiographic feature is variability in p wave morphology with each unique p wave morphology felt to indicate a different site of atrial origin.

It s generally seen in children with underlying heart disorders such as congenital heart disease particularly those who ve had heart surgery. However the arrhythmia may recur if the underlying condition worsens. Atrial electrical activation during atrial tachycardias is mostly regular and by definition at a rate faster than 100 bpm although occasionally the rate. Treatment of multifocal atrial tachycardia with verapamil.

A rapid irregular atrial rhythm arising from multiple ectopic foci within the atria. Multifocal or multiform atrial tachycardia mat is an abnormal heart rhythm specifically a type of supraventricular tachycardia that is particularly common in older people and is associated with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd. Multifocal atrial tachycardia mat is a type of irregular heartbeat in which the heart beats faster than it should. Multifocal atrial tachycardia mat is a rapid heart rate.

It s one of many types of heart arrhythmias or irregular heart rhythms. An atrial tachycardia is a fast abnormal heart rhythm in which the electrical impulse originates in atrial tissue different than the sinoatrial node. Levine jh michael jr guarnieri t. Atrial tachycardia may also be triggered by factors such as an infection or drug or alcohol use.