Supraventricular Tachycardia Following Mitral Valve Surgery

JAMA Cardiol. 2022 Oct 1;7(10):1076-1078. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.2902.
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Plain language summary

A man in his mid-50s with a history of mitral valve repair presented to the emergency department with complaints of recent-onset palpitation. The QRS complexes displayed pairs of beats exhibiting complete right bundle branch block and QRS duration of 140 milliseconds followed by a third beat with normal configuration and QRS duration of 70 milliseconds. What would you do next?

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Mitral Valve / surgery
  • Tachycardia, Paroxysmal*
  • Tachycardia, Supraventricular* / diagnosis
  • Tachycardia, Supraventricular* / etiology