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Supraventricular tachycardia

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Abbreviated SVT.

A regular, abnormally fast heart beat (tachycardia) caused by rapid firing of electrical impulses from a focus above the atrioventricular node (A-V node) in the heart.

Called supraventricular because the tachycardia originates above the ventricles of the heart

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