MY APPROACH to the Pregnant Patient With a Supraventricular Tachycardia

Arrhythmias can cause cardiovascular complications in pregnancy. Palpitations are a common symptom in pregnancy, and electrocardiography (ECG) or ambulatory ECG monitoring can be conducted to determine correlation of the symptoms with arrhythmias. The differential diagnosis for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in pregnant patients is similar to that for non-pregnant patients, and includes atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT), atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter, and atrial tachycardia (AT).
Source: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: MY APPROACH Source Type: research