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Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry

"Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry" 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.

Abnormally rapid heartbeats caused by reentry of atrial impulse into the dual (fast and slow) pathways of ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE. The common type involves a blocked atrial impulse in the slow pathway which reenters the fast pathway in a retrograde direction and simultaneously conducts to the atria and the ventricles leading to rapid HEART RATE of 150-250 beats per minute.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 76 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1997 and 2003
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.