Ventricular flutter

Ventricular flutter

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ICD10 = ICD10|I|49|0|i|30
ICD9 = ICD9|427.42
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Ventricular flutter is an arrythmia affecting the ventricles that can occur in infancycite journal |author=Thies KC, Boos K, Müller-Deile K, Ohrdorf W, Beushausen T, Townsend P |title=Ventricular flutter in a neonate--severe electrolyte imbalance caused by urinary tract infection in the presence of urinary tract malformation |journal=J Emerg Med |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=47–50 |year=2000 |month=January |pmid=10645837 |doi= |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0736-4679(99)00161-4] , youth,cite journal |author=Hayashi M, Murata M, Satoh M, "et al" |title=Sudden nocturnal death in young males from ventricular flutter |journal=Jpn Heart J |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=585–91 |year=1985 |month=July |pmid=4057556 |doi= |url=] or as an adult.

It can be induced by programmed electrical stimulation.cite journal |author=Gurevitz O, Viskin S, Glikson M, "et al" |title=Long-term prognosis of inducible ventricular flutter: not an innocent finding |journal=Am. Heart J. |volume=147 |issue=4 |pages=649–54 |year=2004 |month=April |pmid=15077080 |doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2003.11.012 |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002870303008251] cite journal |author=Viskin S, Ish-Shalom M, Koifman E, "et al" |title=Ventricular flutter induced during electrophysiologic studies in patients with old myocardial infarction: clinical and electrophysiologic predictors, and prognostic significance |journal=J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. |volume=14 |issue=9 |pages=913–9 |year=2003 |month=September |pmid=12950532 |doi= |url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=1045-3873&date=2003&volume=14&issue=9&spage=913]

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