Meanings of auricular fibrillation in English

He adopted atropin where the heart block was associated with auricular fibrillation.

Especially characteristic are tracings of auricular fibrillation and those of heart block.

White finds that hyperthyroidism of long standing is often attended with auricular fibrillation.

Many of the so- called tachycardias are really instances of auricular fibrillation or flutter.

Both auricular fibrillation and auricular flutter are best shown by the polygraph and the electrocardiograph.

If the dilatation of the ventricles occurs following auricular fibrillation, the prognosis is not good.

At times auricular fibrillation is only a passing symptom, and is rapidly cured by treatment.

The irregular pulse in auricular fibrillation is more or less distinctive, being generally rapid, from 110 upward.

The lesion which is most apt to cause auricular fibrillation and more or less permanently irregular heart is perhaps mitral stenosis.

He also believes that when the heart in auricular fibrillation is increased the normal amount or more than normal, the prognosis is good.

He still further advises in auricular fibrillation an injection of atropin before digitalis has been administered, and another after digitalis is thoroughly acting.

If the auricular fibrillation is superimposed, or is followed by dilated ventricles and decompensation, the prognosis is bad, although the condition may be improved.

Palpating the radial artery is not absolutely reliable in all cases of auricular fibrillation, or in another form of arrhythmia called auricular flutter or tachysystole.

If the wave lengths of the pulse tracing show no regularity- -if, in fact, hardly two adjacent wave lengths are alike-thedisturbance is auricular fibrillation.

Auricular fibrillation is at times apparently a clinical entity much as is angina pectoris, but it is often a symptom of some other condition.