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What lung conditions could cause brachycardia on exertion?

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Dr. Aaron Love answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

No messing around: Most symptomatic causes prompt an immediate doctor visit such as drug side/toxic effects, heart attack, ventricular arrhythmias, heart block, extra beats-PVCs, sick sinus syndrome and others. But as far as lung conditions they could be chronic pneumonia, interstitial disease, restrictive causes like kyphosis, idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, asthma, COPD...

Answered 5/16/2015

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