A 48-year-old member asked:
please explain why i have sinus problems for years?
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Dr. Franklyn Gergitsanswered
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery 29 years experience
Chronic sinusitis: Hello. Sinusitis can be chronic on nature or recurring acute infections that return to baseline between infections. This can be caused by abnormal anatomy, problems with your immune system, allergy, exposures, this list can go on and on. See your ENT doctor for guidance and treatment.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
Can you tell me the difference between bradycardia and sinus bradycardia?
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Dr. Mike Bowmananswered
ENT and Head and Neck Surgery 19 years experience
Easy...: Bradycardia means a slow heart rate.
Sinus bradycardia means a slow heart rate that originates from the normal location in the heart.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
What does sinus bradycardia look like on an ecg?
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Dr. Martin Bressanswered
Internal Medicine 50 years experience
See below: Sinus bradycardia is usually defined as a heart beat of less than 60 beats per minute. Iit by itself does not indicate a heart problem.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Is a sinus tachycardia same thing as supraventricular tachycardia?
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Dr. Shahin Tavackolianswered
Cardiology 23 years experience
No: Sinus tachycardia is the normal fast heart rate that results from a stressful situation, physically or emotionally (running, being upset, having fever, etc...). Svt is an arrhythmia that usually requires abnormalities of the electrical conduction system of the heart, and if frequent and troubling needs directed treatment. Sinus tachycardia does not require treatment of its own usually.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
What is a sinus rhythm with a right bundle branch block?
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Dr. Louis Grenzeranswered
Cardiology 55 years experience
Wiring of heart: Sinus rhythm means that the electrical activity that controls the contraction of the heart, starts in the sinus node. Right bundle branch block means that the right bundle (part of the electrical wiring) does not conduct the impulse which changes the appearance of the ekg. Right bundle branch block as opposed to left bundle branch block is usually benign.
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A 39-year-old member asked:
What happens over a lifetime to a person with sinus node dysfunction and mitral valve prolapse?
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Dr. Alon Gitiganswered
Cardiology 20 years experience
Extremely variable: The two entities are usually unrelated. First, sinus node dysfunction. As people age, this usually becomes worse, and (especially if there is need for certain cardiac or BP meds), frequently causes dizziness, fatigue or fainting. Mitral valve prolapse can progress with more "stretching" of the valve over time, and hence becoming leaky, but it is a minority of people who develop significant leak.
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