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My husband has afib, he went in with tachycardia and his heart was beating 190 bpm, they did a 12 lead ekg and found out his heart wasn't working right and he said the top of his heart isn't beating in sinc with his lower heart. ?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Atrial fibrillation: Common problem that is causes by dysfunction in the atrium of the heart. Your heart normally beats by creating an electical charge from your sinus node which is at the conjunction of the vena cava and the atrium. A signal is sent to atrial-ventricular, AV, node which then sends electrical charge to get the heart to beat. Atrial fib starts when this "electrical wire" is disrupted.

Answered 3/21/2020

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