heart attack question - Heart Disorders Message Board

rc1975 · 10-12-2006, 06:57 PM

a co-worker recently told me that skipped beats mean that your arteries could be blocked? i have mvp and i have skips almost everyday, does this mean i could have blocked arteries?

Pika · 10-13-2006, 05:50 AM

My cardio said my pacemaker has recorded few skip beats. "If you like can take some medication but it won't work!" So, what does it meant? See you six months time around April 2007. Would it sound like a "blocked artery"?

started04 · 10-13-2006, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rc1975

a co-worker recently told me that skipped beats mean that your arteries could be blocked? i have mvp and i have skips almost everyday, does this mean i could have blocked arteries?

Skipped" beats do not have anything to do with blocked vessels. There are CHANNELS for electric impulses to pass through to provide a trigger for chamber contractions. The circuit (channels) for the electric impulses are medically referred to as right and left Bundle Branches. Sometimes there is a BLOCK for a particular signal, a short circuit. The right atrium chamber is the source and pacemaker for the impulse and quickly recovers. The danger is when there are very fast heart beats and/or sustained irregular beats.

Skipped beats are common and often there is no skipped signal but two beats very close together and a long interval for the next beat. In physics it is referred to it as a transient electric current. Not an uncommon phenomenon happening to the heart's electric impulses. Almost always the system fully recovers without any problems.