Heart Rhythm Disorder

Heart rhythm disorder refers to irregular position of heart beat. In such position heart beat sometimes, can be too fast or too slow. A normal heart beat rates between 60 to 80 times, (in some cases 50 to 100) per minutes. If heart beat is lower than 50 or exceeds more than 100, it indicates person is suffering from heart rhythm disorder. Heart rhythm disorder belongs to arrhythmia, which is a medical term and meant to heart position on unequal level. Arrhythmia has two types. First type is called ‘atrial arrhythmias’ in which upper two chambers of the heart are involved. The second is called ‘ventricles arrhythmias’ which originates from the lower chamber of the heart. Arrhythmias can be simple and treated with little medications but some arrhythmias can be critical and dangerous to life, depending on individual situation.

The symptoms of heart rhythm disorder vary from person to person. In general, shortness of breath, chest pain, sweating and light headache is symptoms to recognize this disease. In some cases person has no symptoms and in other cases, it may occur suddenly, causing death.

The most general causes of the heart rhythm disorder include high or low blood pressure, low or cholesterol, diabetes, and smoking. To minimize the possibility of heart problems, these diseases should be under control. The treatment provided to a given patient depends entirely on how severe is a heart rhythm problem. Many heart rhythm problems do not need any treatment at all, other than complete rest. Other heart rhythm problems may be easily treated with different anti-arrhythmic medications. Some swift heart rhythm problems are treated with catheter ablation or implantation of a pacemaker-type device known as an implantable cardioversion defibrillator. The final treatment of this problem is heart surgery to eliminate the source of heart rhythm problem but very rare people require the surgery.