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Atrial Premature Complexes

"Atrial Premature Complexes" 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.

A type of cardiac arrhythmia with premature atrial contractions or beats caused by signals originating from ectopic atrial sites. The ectopic signals may or may not conduct to the HEART VENTRICLES. Atrial premature complexes are characterized by premature P waves on ECG which are different in configuration from the P waves generated by the normal pacemaker complex in the SINOATRIAL NODE.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Atrial Premature Complexes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Atrial Premature Complexes" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2018
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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.