A Rare Case of Pseudo-atrial Flutter Waves in a Patient with Essential Tremor

High-frequency muscle tremor can mimic atrial flutter. Unnecessary therapies and aggressive interventions may have devastating consequences in these cases. We present a case of a patient with global pseudo-atrial flutter waves in the setting of essential tremor strictly confined to the arms. Two-dim...

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Autores principales: Papanastasiou, Christos A, Petroglou, Dimitrios, Palaiodimos, Leonidas, Economou, Fotios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30931202
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3934
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author Papanastasiou, Christos A
Petroglou, Dimitrios
Palaiodimos, Leonidas
Economou, Fotios
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description High-frequency muscle tremor can mimic atrial flutter. Unnecessary therapies and aggressive interventions may have devastating consequences in these cases. We present a case of a patient with global pseudo-atrial flutter waves in the setting of essential tremor strictly confined to the arms. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2D TTE) was used to discriminate normal sinus rhythm from pseudo-atrial flutter waves.
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spelling pubmed-64303072019-03-29 A Rare Case of Pseudo-atrial Flutter Waves in a Patient with Essential Tremor Papanastasiou, Christos A Petroglou, Dimitrios Palaiodimos, Leonidas Economou, Fotios Cureus Cardiology High-frequency muscle tremor can mimic atrial flutter. Unnecessary therapies and aggressive interventions may have devastating consequences in these cases. We present a case of a patient with global pseudo-atrial flutter waves in the setting of essential tremor strictly confined to the arms. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2D TTE) was used to discriminate normal sinus rhythm from pseudo-atrial flutter waves. Cureus 2019-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6430307/ /pubmed/30931202 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3934 Text en Copyright © 2019, Papanastasiou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Rare Case of Pseudo-atrial Flutter Waves in a Patient with Essential Tremor
title A Rare Case of Pseudo-atrial Flutter Waves in a Patient with Essential Tremor
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title_sort rare case of pseudo-atrial flutter waves in a patient with essential tremor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430307/
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