Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it increases in prevalence with advancing age to about 5% in people older than 65 years. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus occurring in an 84-years-old Caucas...

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Autores principales: Upile, Tahwinder, Jerjes, Waseem, El Maaytah, Mohammed, Singh, Sandeep, Hopper, Colin, Mahil, Jaspal
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1716178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17166260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-15
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author Upile, Tahwinder
Jerjes, Waseem
El Maaytah, Mohammed
Singh, Sandeep
Hopper, Colin
Mahil, Jaspal
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Hopper, Colin
Mahil, Jaspal
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description BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it increases in prevalence with advancing age to about 5% in people older than 65 years. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus occurring in an 84-years-old Caucasian woman. The patient had a history of progressive dysphagia and the accumulation of food debris lead to mega-oesophagus. CONCLUSION: The diagnosis was made by barium swallow and electrocardiogram; evacuations of 300 ml of the food debris lead to complete resolution of the arrhythmia. The possible aetiology leading to this AF is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-17161782006-12-22 Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus Upile, Tahwinder Jerjes, Waseem El Maaytah, Mohammed Singh, Sandeep Hopper, Colin Mahil, Jaspal BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it increases in prevalence with advancing age to about 5% in people older than 65 years. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus occurring in an 84-years-old Caucasian woman. The patient had a history of progressive dysphagia and the accumulation of food debris lead to mega-oesophagus. CONCLUSION: The diagnosis was made by barium swallow and electrocardiogram; evacuations of 300 ml of the food debris lead to complete resolution of the arrhythmia. The possible aetiology leading to this AF is discussed. BioMed Central 2006-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1716178/ /pubmed/17166260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-15 Text en Copyright © 2006 Upile et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus
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title_short Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17166260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-15
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