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THE JUNCTIONAL TACHYCARDIA

- Definition
- The Symptoms, How to make the diagnosis?
- Check-up
- The Treatment

TREATMENT

1 - The well-tolerated junctional tachycardia

Medicines are administered by i.v., in a specialized environment, permitting to break the tachycardia. The electrocardiogram is recorded non-stop.

2 - The ill-tolerated junctional tachycardia

- Long-term treatment of the illness

The beta-blockers, the verapamil, the amiodarone or even the digitalics drugs can be used. With these treatments, a spacing of the crises and especially a bigger sensitivity to the vagal manoeuvres are observed.

3 - The dangerous junctional tachycardia

The heating emitted by a radiofrequency current destroys the cardiac conductive tissue responsible for the tachycardia. The electrofulguration is still used nowadays.

The efficacy of this method is around 90%. More and more often, the junctional tachycardia are treated by this method, permitting to avoid the medicinal treatment.

File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011

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