Bradycardia

Introduction: Bradycardia

Bradycardia: Excessively slow heart beat. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Bradycardia is available below.

Symptoms of Bradycardia

• Slow heart beat
• Heart beat slower than normal
• Bradycardia

Home Diagnostic Testing

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Medical Textbooks Online about Bradycardia

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Bradycardia?

• Misdiagnosis of Bradycardia
• Underlying causes of Bradycardia (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Bradycardia

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Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but...read more »

Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations and rapid heartbeat. In rare cases, this...read more »

Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed, leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed. People become concerned that a condition is a heart attack, whereas there are various less...read more »

Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure. The "cuff" around the arm to measure...read more »

Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is even more likely in children. Some of the symptoms of...read more »

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Causes of Bradycardia

• Athlete - a slow heart rate can be normal in very physically fit athletes.
• Heart conditions
  • Arrhythmias
  • Sinus node disease
  • Bradycardias

See full list of 15 causes of Bradycardia

More information about causes of Bradycardia:

• Medications, drugs, or substances causing Bradycardia (76 listings)
• Drug interactions causing Bradycardia (69 listings)
• Underlying causes of Bradycardia
• Bradycardia as a complication caused by other conditions
• Bradycardia as a symptom

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Reseach about Bradycardia

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Clinical Trials for Bradycardia

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Bradycardia include:

• Clinical Investigation of the SelectSecure Pacing Lead - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• CAPTURE - Complete Automatic Pacing Threshold Utilization Recorded by EnPulse - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• OMNI Study--Assessing Therapies in Medtronic Pacemaker, Defibrillator, and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• P3: Pacemaker Patient Profiling Study - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• PREFER (Pacemaker Remote Follow-Up Evaluation and Review) - This study has been suspended (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

See full list of 28 Clinical Trials for Bradycardia

Types of Bradycardia

• Sinus bradycardia

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Definitions of Bradycardia:

Abnormally slow heartbeat - (Source - WordNet 2.1)