Your heart may feel like it’s pounding, fluttering or beating irregularly, often for just a few seconds or minutes. You may also feel these sensations in your throat or neck. Palpitations may seem alarming, but in most cases they’re harmless and are not a sign of a serious problem .
Read moreWhat does a flutter indicate?
With an atrial flutter, you have a rapidly firing electrical circuit in your atrium, which causes your atria to beat quickly, but can also cause your ventricles to beat faster than normal . An atrial flutter is often caused by previous damage to your heart, whether because of disease or surgery.
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Read moreIs it normal to feel your heartbeat flutter?
Your heart may feel like it’s pounding, fluttering or beating irregularly, often for just a few seconds or minutes. You may also feel these sensations in your throat or neck. Palpitations may seem alarming, but in most cases they’re harmless and are not a sign of a serious problem .
Read moreWhat is a heart flutter love?
People often describe these skips, flips and blips as heart palpitations or heart flutters. When they happen only once in a while, last only a second or two and can be traced to something you ate, drank or did (including, possibly, falling madly, deeply in love ) a fluttering heart is probably harmless.
Read moreWhat does a fluttering heart mean?
When your heart flutters A fluttering sensation in your chest is a specific type of heart palpitation that may indicate an atrial flutter . This condition is the result of an arrhythmia that causes tachycardia, which is a fast heartbeat (more than 100 beats a minute).
Read moreWhat is fibrillation vs flutter?
In atrial fibrillation, the atria beat irregularly. In atrial flutter, the atria beat regularly, but faster than usual and more often than the ventricles , so you may have four atrial beats to every one ventricular beat.
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