What Does Atrial Couplet Mean?

Posted on Sun, 12 Jun 2011

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Question : On my recent holter monitor it said 1 x atrial couplet. Is this bad

Answered by Dr. Dr. Rakhi Tayal (36 minutes later)

Hello,

Thanks for writing to us.

Atrial couplet means two continuous atrial premature complexes one after the other.
In many persons these changes are mild benign chance findings with no clinical significance. If you have no other associated heart disease then you can well ignore it as only one such complex has been found that too I presume for the first time.

Still if it concerns you, you can get a complete cardiac work done from your cardiologist as it can also be associated with some diseases like atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation or supra-ventricular tachycardia.

I hope this information has been both informative and helpful for you. If there are additional concerns, I am available for your followups.

Regards,

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