What Does Supraventricular Ectopic Activity Mean?

Posted on Sat, 1 Nov 2014

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Question : what is supraventricular ectopic activity consisted of 26 beats of which 2 were atrial couplets 24 single PACs the longest R-R interval was 1.2 seconds

Answered by Dr. Benard Shehu (26 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Nothing to worry

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you for asking to HCM!

Supraventricular ectopic activity mean that you have premature complexes of supraventricular origin.

There have been evidenced 26 supraventricular premature complex of them 2 were in a row (i.e atrial couplete) and others were ectopic beats.

The longest pause evidenced (i.e R-R interval) was 1.2 s which is normal.

For me this is a holter monitoring within the normal range. Nothing to worry about.

Hope this was of help!
Dr. Benard

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