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cardiac arrhythmia |
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cardiac arrhythmia [¦kärd·ē‚ak ā′rith·mē·ə] (medicine) Any disturbance or irregularity of the heartbeat. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We therefore recommend that any patient who develops an unexplained tachycardia or tachyarrhythmia following neck surgery should undergo urgent thyroid function testing to exclude surgery-induced thyroiditis. On admission, the patient's fever was still high (40 [degrees] C), there was severe hypoxemia with bilateral diffuse pulmonary infiltrates, a tachyarrhythmia with auricular fibrillation and gallop, and conjunctival injection. In recent years, researchers have recognized that patients who get vessel-opening drugs such as tissue-plasminogen activator (tPA) seem to have a lower incidence of ventricular tachyarrhythmia -- dangerously rapid and uneven heart rhythms -- and sudden death following a heart attack. |
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