Premature Electrocardiography Complex
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More Specific Terms
- competitive atrioventricular (AV) dissociation
- premature atrial complex (PAC, atrial premature contraction, APC)
- premature atrioventricular junctional complex (JPC)
- premature ventricular complex (PVC) or depolarization (PVD), extrasystole
Introduction
- Premature complexes are the most most form of arrhythmia, most frequently arising within the ventricles. They arise less frequently from the atria & the AV node.
More General Terms
References
Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 28th ed, Ewald & McKenzie (eds), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1995, pg 140
