Ventricular Flutter

"Ventricular Flutter" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia characterized by an extremely rapid, hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (150-300 beats/min) with a large oscillating sine-wave appearance. If untreated, ventricular flutter typically progresses to VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.

Descriptor ID

D054141

MeSH Number(s)

C14.280.067.961

C23.550.073.961

Concept/Terms

Ventricular Flutter

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Ventricular Flutter".

Diseases [C]
Cardiovascular Diseases [C14]
Heart Diseases [C14.280]
Arrhythmias, Cardiac [C14.280.067]
Ventricular Flutter [C14.280.067.961]
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms [C23]
Pathologic Processes [C23.550]
Arrhythmias, Cardiac [C23.550.073]
Ventricular Flutter [C23.550.073.961]

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Heart Rhythm