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What Causes Double Heart Beats?
Just had an EKG and showed double heart beats....2 beats then pause, then 2 beats..pause...etc. I don t feel anything like rapid beats or flutter when it is happening. I am relatively healthy 76 year old female, mother died of heart attack at age 82...father had bradychardia and had pacemaker but died from lung/liver cancer at age 81.
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017
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You are having a kind of arrhythmia or altered rhythm of your heart. It could be an ectopic beats or bigeminy. Nothing much to worry but close follow up is required. Consult a cardiologist and get evaluated, you might require drugs like Metoprolol to regularize your rhythm.
Wishing you good health.
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You are having a kind of arrhythmia or altered rhythm of your heart. It could be an ectopic beats or bigeminy. Nothing much to worry but close follow up is required. Consult a cardiologist and get evaluated, you might require drugs like Metoprolol to regularize your rhythm.
Wishing you good health.
Thanks
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