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Medical condition

Ventricular flutter

Specialty	Cardiology

Ventricular flutter is an arrhythmia, more specifically a tachycardia affecting the ventricles with a rate over 250-350 beats/min, and one of the most indiscernible. It is characterized on the ECG by a sinusoidal waveform without clear definition of the QRS and T waves. It has been considered as a possible transition stage between ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation, and is a critically unstable arrhythmia that can result in sudden cardiac death.

It can occur in infancy, youth, or as an adult.

It can be induced by programmed electrical stimulation.

References

"Heart Ventricle Flutter - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
Thies KC, Boos K, Müller-Deile K, Ohrdorf W, Beushausen T, Townsend P (January 2000). "Ventricular flutter in a neonate--severe electrolyte imbalance caused by urinary tract infection in the presence of urinary tract malformation". J Emerg Med. 18 (1): 47–50. doi:10.1016/S0736-4679(99)00161-4. PMID 10645837.
Hayashi M, Murata M, Satoh M, et al. (July 1985). "Sudden nocturnal death in young males from ventricular flutter". Jpn Heart J. 26 (4): 585–91. doi:10.1536/ihj.26.585. PMID 4057556.
Gurevitz O, Viskin S, Glikson M, et al. (April 2004). "Long-term prognosis of inducible ventricular flutter: not an innocent finding". Am. Heart J. 147 (4): 649–54. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2003.11.012. PMID 15077080.
Viskin S, Ish-Shalom M, Koifman E, et al. (September 2003). "Ventricular flutter induced during electrophysiologic studies in patients with old myocardial infarction: clinical and electrophysiologic predictors, and prognostic significance". J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 14 (9): 913–9. doi:10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03082.x. PMID 12950532. S2CID 30924977.

External links

Classification	D ICD-10: I49.0 ICD-10-CM: I49.02 ICD-9-CM: 427.42 MeSH: D054141 SNOMED CT: 111288001

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/409172_3

Cardiovascular disease (heart)

Ischemia

Coronary disease	Coronary artery disease (CAD) Coronary artery aneurysm Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) Coronary thrombosis Coronary vasospasm Myocardial bridge
Active ischemia	Angina pectoris Prinzmetal's angina Stable angina Acute coronary syndrome Myocardial infarction Unstable angina
Sequelae	hours Hibernating myocardium Myocardial stunning days Myocardial rupture weeks Ventricular aneurysm Dressler syndrome

Layers

Pericardium

Myocardium

Endocardium /
valves

Endocarditis	infective endocarditis Subacute bacterial endocarditis non-infective endocarditis Libman–Sacks endocarditis Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
Valves	mitral prolapse stenosis regurgitation aortic stenosis regurgitation tricuspid stenosis regurgitation pulmonary stenosis regurgitation

Conduction /
arrhythmia

Bradycardia

Tachycardia
(paroxysmal and sinus)

Supraventricular	Atrial Multifocal Junctional AV nodal reentrant Junctional ectopic
Ventricular	Accelerated idioventricular rhythm Catecholaminergic polymorphic Torsades de pointes

Premature contraction

Pre-excitation syndrome

Flutter / fibrillation

Other / ungrouped

Other

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