Apple Watch-guided diagnosis of AVNRT in a pregnant woman-A case report and literature review

Maja Hawryszko; Grzegorz Sławiński; Dariusz Kozłowski; Ewa Lewicka

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2022.985421

Apple Watch-guided diagnosis of AVNRT in a pregnant woman-A case report and literature review

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022 Nov 7:9:985421. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.985421. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Maja Hawryszko¹, Grzegorz Sławiński¹, Dariusz Kozłowski¹, Ewa Lewicka¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology and Electrotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.

Abstract

Cardiac arrhythmias occurring during pregnancy pose a therapeutic problem as antiarrhythmic drugs can be potentially harmful to the fetus. A 35-years-old woman in the 20^th week of pregnancy was admitted to the Department of Cardiology due to the first episode of arrhythmia in her life. During the event, the patient was wearing an Apple Watch Series 6, which records a 30-sec single-channel ECG. The recording showed narrow QRS complex tachycardia of 216 bpm, and short RP interval and atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) was recognized. Due to the mild nature of the arrhythmia, antiarrhythmic pharmacotherapy was not initiated. The use of mobile health (mHealth) devices such as wearables and health monitoring applications is now a valuable addition to routine cardiac diagnostics for patients of all ages and levels of cardiovascular risk.

Keywords: AVNRT; Apple Watch; arrhythmia; mobile health (mHealth); pregnancy.

Publication types

Case Reports