TREATING ARRHYTHMIA CAN INCLUDE MEDICATION, DEFIBRILLATOR, PACEMAKER.(LIVING)(Column) From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: September 4, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Q: What is heart arrhythmia? How serious is it and how is it treated?

A: Arrhythmia is a broad term that has come to mean abnormality in the rate and regularity of the heartbeat. ''Arrhythmia'' actually means ''without rhythm.''

Disrhythmia is the proper term for the condition but has been replaced in common usage by ''arrhythmia.''

About 90 percent of arrhythmias are harmless; about 5 percent are life-threatening.

The two broad categories of arrhythmias are supraventricular, in which the irregular rhythm is generated by the top part of the heart called the ...

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