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Is it true that over a long period of time of heart palpitations can cause blood clots?

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Dr. Anita Prakash answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Depends : heart palpitations can range from Benign premature atrial contractions to sustained abnormal rhythms such as atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation /flutter can causes stasis of blood flow in a heart chamber from asynchronous atrio-ventricular contractions and hence blood pools so to speak and can form clots.

Answered 11/12/2015

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