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A group of cardiac arrhythmias in which the cardiac contractions are not initiated at the SINOATRIAL NODE. They include both atrial and ventricular premature beats, and are also known as extra or ectopic heartbeats. Their frequency is increased in heart diseases.
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- Cardiac Complex, Premature
- Cardiac Complexes, Premature
- Ectopic Heartbeats
- Extrasystole
- Extrasystoles
- Premature Beats
- Premature Cardiac Complex
- Beat, Premature
- Beats, Premature
- Complexes, Premature Cardiac
- Ectopic Heartbeat
- Heartbeat, Ectopic
- Heartbeats, Ectopic
- Premature Beat
- Premature Cardiac Complices
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified: atrial = ATRIAL PREMATURE COMPLEXES; ventricular = VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES
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96; was EXTRASYSTOLE 1963-95; PREMATURE BEATS was PREMATURE BEAT 1985-95
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Premature Cardiac Complexes. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005117. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005117
- Premature Cardiac Complexes. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_heart_beat
- Premature Cardiac Complexes. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840646