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Escitalopram-induced sinus bradycardia in coronary heart disease combined with depression: a case report and review of literature

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

For patients with cardiovascular disease, using the antidepressant escitalopram may lead to unexpected adverse events. Here, a rare repeated sinus bradycardia event due to escitalopram is first reported. She began to take escitalopram and lorazepam due to depression, but sinus bradycardia (93.7%

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Cardiomatics guide: Analyzing arrhythmias made easy

Cardiomatics

Prolonged ambulatory ECG monitoring, commonly referred to as Holter testing, increases the chance of detecting abnormalities responsible for the symptoms of cardiovascular diseases, especially those whose pathognomonic symptoms occur only periodically. Sinus tachycardia – sinus rhythm above 100 bpm is a sinus tachycardia.

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Management of arrythmias during pregnancy

Heart BMJ

Learning objectives To review the potential arrhythmia complications during pregnancy and puerperium in women with and without known cardiovascular disease. This is often secondary to sinus tachycardia, sinus bradycardia and sinus arrhythmia, or isolated premature atrial or ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). 2–4.

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Cost of Cardiovascular Disease Event and Cardiovascular Disease Treatment–Related Complication Hospitalizations in the United States

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Annual costs to the US health care system were estimated by multiplying the mean annual number of events by the mean total cost per discharge.RESULTS:The annual mean number of hospital discharges among CVD events was the highest for heart failure (1 087 000 per year) and cerebrovascular disease (800 600 per year).

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

If the patient has Abnormal Vital Signs (fever, hypotension, tachycardia, or tachypnea, or hypoxemia), then these are the primary issue to address, as there is ongoing pathology which must be identified. Thus, if there is documented sinus bradycardia, and no suspicion of high grade AV block, at the time of the syncope, this is very useful.