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PALPITATIONS
DENOMINATION DEFINITION RHYTHM YOU CAUSE TO SEE TO CONSULT

OTHER NAMES

  • Arrhythmias.
  • Rapid beats of the heart.

DEFINITION

The palpitations are a symptom recounted by the patients who notice an acceleration in the beats of the heart. They can feel in the field of the heart, breast, but also in the neck, or after the pulse takes.

NORMAL CARDIAC RÍTMO

The heart, depending on the persons, can be to a beats rhythm between 60 to 90 pulsations per minute. If it is in sportsmen or persons with many sports custom he can be a minor of 60 up to 50 or less in some cases.

The normal rhythm can turn out to be accelerated by normal situations of fear, stress, weariness, etc... But other times this rhythm is accelerated by pathological causes as there are the illnesses of the thyroid gland, for fever, for anemia or for cardiac illnesses.

CAUSES OF PALPITATIONS

  • The pictures of anxiety, fear or stress
  • The fever
  • Medicines as the thyroid hormones, the caffeine, the medicines to slim, antiasthmatic, antiarrítmicos, etc...
  • The nicotine of the tobacco
  • Cardiac illnesses
  • The congenital cardiac illnesses
  • The hipertiroidismo
  • The use of drugs as the cocaine and the psicotropos (pills)
  • Other diverse illnesses.

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Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009


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