You might have one of these heart rhythm disorder symptoms. Take a look.

Narayana Health
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

With the kind of stressful life that everyone is having these days, heart complications and heart-related disorders are bound to pitch in.

This kind of heart related disorder is called as the Arrhythmia. So let’s understand the further details of all the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and types of Arrhythmia.

Arrhythmia is a heart disorder which happens due to an irregular heartbeat. Where a normal heartbeat is 50 to 100 beats per minute, in cases of Arrhythmia, the heart beat could go down to as less as 50 beats per minute.

Arrhythmia is also a possible disorder with people having rapid heart rates, i.e: faster than 100 beats per minute.

Arrhythmia causes:

Arrhythmia can be caused due to Coronary heart disease, Electrolyte imbalances in the blood, Changes in heart muscle, Injury from a heart attack etc.

Types of Arrhythmia:

Arrhythmia types can be categorized by their way of contractions as following:

Premature atrial contractions

Premature Ventricular contractions

Atrial fibrillation

Atrial flutter

Accessory pathway tachycardias

AV nodal reentrant tachycardia

Symptoms of Arrhythmia:

In most cases, Arrhythmia is overlooked because of no symptoms showing up on patients. Otherwise, Arrhythmia symptoms include Palpitations, Pounding in patient’s chest and dizziness.

More symptoms of Arrhythmia include fainting, shortness of breath, chest discomfort and weakness.

Arrhythmia Diagnosis:

Depending on the symptoms, a few tests are taken in order to determine the exact cause behind those symptoms.

There are many ways to diagnose Arrhythmia. However, the most commonly used are the physical tests and Diagnostic Tests.

The physical examination tests include checking the pulse, Echocardiography test, checking the legs and feet for swelling. While the diagnostic tests include ECG, Holter monitoring and Tilt table test.

Another possible way to diagnose Arrhythmia is the ECG test which is taken while the person is running on the treadmill. This will test the heart rhythm in stress situations. So if a person is going through a state of arrhythmias because of stress, it’ll be diagnosed from this test.

Now once a person is diagnosed of Arrhythmia, it’s an obvious fact that they would look for Arrhythmia treatment.

Of all the hospitals, Narayana Health is considered as one of the best in their services. Especially in terms of the Heart Rhythm Disorder, the hospital is one of its kind.

Narayana Health and their specialized doctors considered a number of factors like giddiness, fainting and shortness of breath in order to diagnose and confirm the Arrhythmia in a patient.

Along with these factors, the hospital’s skilled and top-notch panel of Doctors helps in a quick decision of the treatment plan which in turn leads to the patient’s faster recovery.

Narayana Health has now also set foot in the Delhi-NCR region, making high-quality care available across the country by adding the North zone to its map. The superspeciality hospitals have their establishments and are the best hospitals in Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata.

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