Mat Heart Disease

Learn more about its common triggers and available treatment options.

Mat heart disease. This node is considered the heart s natural pacemaker it helps control the heartbeat. This happens slowly over time. See coronary artery disease. Narrowed heart arteries a heart attack abnormal heart valves prior heart surgery heart failure cardiomyopathy and other heart damage increase your risk of developing supraventricular tachycardia.

Being born with a heart abnormality may affect your heart s rhythm. The normal heart rate in adults is about 60 to 100 beats per minute. However other underlying causes may be present such as heart failure sepsis or methylxanthine toxicity. The most common cause of heart disease is narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart itself.

Heart disease is any disorder that affects the heart s ability to function normally. Multifocal atrial tachycardia mat is a type of irregular heartbeat in which the heart beats faster than it should. In mat many locations in the atria fire signals at the same time. Mat most often is found in the elderly patient with decompensated chronic lung disease and should be thought of as a hypoxic complication of underlying heart conduction pathology.

Bouts of rapid regular heart beating that originate in the upper chamber of the heart abbreviated pat. Pat is caused by abnormalities in the atrioventricular av node that lead to rapid firing of electrical impulses from the atrium that bypass the av node under certain conditions including excess alcohol consumption stress caffeine use overactive thyroid. They normally have higher heart rates than adults 100 to 130 beats. Mast cell activation syndrome can cause temporary symptoms in multiple organ systems.

Mat is rare in infants and children. When the heart detects a signal it contracts or beats. It s one of many types of heart arrhythmias or irregular heart rhythms. If you have mat your heart rate can be anywhere between 100 to 250 beats per minute.