Junctional tachycardia

Junctional tachycardia

ECG showing junctional tachycardia. Narrow complex QRS. No P waves. Heart rate fast.
Classification and external resources
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Junctional tachycardia is a form of supraventricular tachycardia characterized by involvement of the AV node.[1] It can be contrasted to atrial tachycardia. It is a tachycardia associated with the generation of impulses in a focus in the region of the atrioventricular node due to an A-V disassociation.[2] In general, the AV junction's intrinsic rate is 40-60 bpm so junctional tachycardia implies a rate >60 bpm.

Junctional tachycardia (rate about 115/min) dissociated from a slightly slower sinus tachycardia (rate about 107/min) producing one form of double tachycardia; pairs of ventricular capture (C) beats (5th, 6th, 19th, and 20th beats); see laddergram.

Cause

It can be associated with digitalis toxicity.[3] It may be also be due to onset of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, conduction system diseases with enhanced automaticity, or administration of theophylline. [4]

Diagnosis

On an EKG, Junctional Tachycardia exhibits the following classic criteria:[2]

It can coexist with other superventricular tachycardias due to the disassociation between the SA node and the AV node. Junctional Tachycardia is can appear similar to atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.[5]

One form is junctional ectopic tachycardia.

See also

References

  1. "junctional tachycardia" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. 1 2 ROSEN, KENNETH (1973). "Junctional Tachycardia: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, and Management" (PDF). Circulation: 654–664. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.47.3.654. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  3. "Junctional Rhythm: Overview - eMedicine". Retrieved 2008-12-21.
  4. Aehlert, Barbara (2013). ECGs Made Easy (5th ed.). Elsevier. p. 160. ISBN 9780323170574.
  5. Srivathsan K, Gami AS, Barrett R, Monahan K, Packer DL, Asirvatham SJ (January 2008). "Differentiating atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia from junctional tachycardia: novel application of the delta H-A interval". J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 19 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1111/j.1540-8167.2007.00961.x. PMID 17916156.
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