What is Atrial Flutter? - American Heart Association
2023年3月23日 · Atrial flutter, like atrial fibrillation, is a rhythmic disturbance of the heart (arrhythmia). Atrial flutter occurs when the chambers beat faster than normal and not always in coordination. It is not as common as atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib or AF. But atrial flutter has similar symptoms, causes and consequences.
Atrial flutter - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2024年8月29日 · Atrial flutter is a type of heart rhythm disorder, called an arrhythmia. It is similar to atrial fibrillation (AFib). But in atrial flutter the heart rhythm is more organized and less chaotic than in AFib. A person can have both atrial flutter and …
Atrial Flutter: Types, Symptoms, Causes, Tests, and Treatments - WebMD
2024年1月12日 · Atrial flutter is an arrhythmia that results from an abnormal electrical circuit inside one of your heart’s two upper chambers, or atria. Most often, this faulty signal develops in the right...
Atrial Flutter vs. Atrial Fibrillation: What’s the Difference?
2019年5月9日 · Atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation (AFib) both occur when the electrical signals that make your heart chambers contract occur faster than normal. However, they differ in how this...
Atrial flutter - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
2024年8月29日 · If you have atrial flutter, your healthcare professional may give you medicines to: Control the speed of the heartbeat. Restore the heart rhythm. Prevent blood clots if you also have AFib. Surgeries or other procedures. If medicine doesn't control atrial flutter, a heart doctor may try to reset your heart rhythm using a procedure called ...
Comparing Atrial Flutter vs. Atrial Fibrillation - Verywell Health
2023年11月3日 · When comparing atrial flutter vs. AFib, atrial flutter is considered a less severe heart condition than AFib. However, without treatment, people with atrial flutter can develop AFib as their heart weakens from the stress of beating too fast for too long.
Atrial fibrillation or flutter - Mount Sinai Health System
Atrial fibrillation (Afib) and atrial flutter are common types of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) which affect the upper chambers (atria) of the heart. In atrial flutter, the heart beats too fast, but mostly continues to contract in a regular rhythm.
Atrial fibrillation vs. atrial flutter - UChicago Medicine
2021年7月22日 · Atrial flutter is a heart condition known to produce similar symptoms to atrial fibrillation, or AFib, which is the most common arrhythmia leading to hospitalization in the United States.
What is Atrial Flutter? - American Heart Association CPR & First Aid
2023年3月23日 · Atrial flutter, like atrial fibrillation, is a rhythmic disturbance of the heart (arrhythmia). Atrial flutter occurs when the chambers beat faster than normal and not always in coordination. It is not as common as atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib or AF. But atrial flutter has similar symptoms, causes and consequences.
Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter - Heart and Blood Vessel ...
Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are very fast electrical discharge patterns that make the atria (upper chambers of the heart) contract very rapidly, with some of the electrical impulses reaching the ventricles and sometimes causing them to contract faster and less efficiently than normal.