Sinus Tachycardia: a Multidisciplinary Expert Focused Review.

ABSTRACT: Sinus tachycardia (ST) is ubiquitous, but its presence outside of normal physiological triggers in otherwise healthy individuals remains a commonly encountered phenomenon in medical practice. In many cases, ST can be readily explained by a current medical condition that precipitates an increase in the sinus rate, but ST at rest without physiological triggers may also represent a spectrum of normal. In other cases, ST may not have an easily explainable cause but may represent serious underlying pathology and can be associated with intolerable symptoms. The classification of ST, consideration of possible etiologies, as well as the decisions of when and how to intervene can be difficult. ST can be classified as secondary to a specific, usually treatable, medical condition (eg, pulmonary embol

SUBMITTER: Mayuga KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9523592 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature