A junctional escape rhythm is when the heartbeat starts in a different part of the heart than it should. This type of arrhythmia may not need treatment, but a doctor does need to investigate the ...

Having an accelerated junctional rhythm occurs when the atrioventricular node in your heart beats too quickly. It happens as a result of damage to your heart’s primary natural pacemaker. There’s no ...

Background A routine sports evaluation identified constant alternation between a junctional and idioventricular rhythm in a 9-year-old child. During exercise testing, electrography demonstrated that ...

In Atrial Arrhythmias the cause of the arrhythmia is in the upper chambers of the two atria. Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) is rapid heartbeats originating anywhere above the ventricles. It ...

The rhythm is irregular, but there is a pattern. All of the long RR intervals are the same (1.16 sec), the intermediate RR intervals are the same (0.64 sec), and the short RR intervals are the same (0 ...