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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Cardiac Complexes, Premature
Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Arrhythmias, Cardiac > Cardiac Complexes, Premature
Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Cardiac Conduction System Disease > Cardiac Complexes, Premature

Preferred term

Cardiac Complexes, Premature  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Beat, Premature
  • Beats, Premature
  • Cardiac Complex, Premature
  • Ectopic Heartbeat
  • Ectopic Heartbeats
  • Extrasystole
  • Extrasystoles
  • Heartbeat, Ectopic
  • Heartbeats, Ectopic
  • Premature Beat
  • Premature Beats
  • Premature Cardiac Complex
  • Premature Cardiac Complexes
  • Premature Cardiac Complices

Note

  • general or unspecified: atrial = ATRIAL PREMATURE COMPLEXES; ventricular = VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 96; was EXTRASYSTOLE 1963-95; PREMATURE BEATS was PREMATURE BEAT 1985-95

In other languages

  • lisälyönnit

    Finnish

  • annan och icke specificerad prematur depolarisation
  • arrhythmiae extrasystolicae
  • contractiones cordis praematurae NAS
  • depolarisatio praematura
  • ekstrasystolia
  • ekstrasystoliat
  • ektooppiset sydämenlyönnit
  • ektopiska slag UNS
  • extrasystolia
  • extrasystolier UNS
  • ictus cordis praematuri
  • ictus ectopici cordis
  • lisälyönti
  • lisälyöntisyys
  • muu tai määrittämätön ennenaikainen depolarisaatio
  • määrittämättömät sydämen lisälyönnit
  • prematuraslag UNS
  • sydämen lisälyönnit
  • tarkemmin määrittämättömät ennenaikaiset sydämenlyönnit
  • tarkemmin määrittämättömät sydämen ennenaikaiset supistukset
  • Prematurslag

    Swedish

  • Extra hjärtslag
  • Extrasystole

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005117

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