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Atrial Fibrillation
SYMPTOMS. Signs include pallor, fatigue, irregular pulse, weakness, feeling
of fluttering in the chest, nausea, light-headedness and near-fainting.
CAUSED by an above normal rapid rhythm of the atria which is the two upper,
blood-receiving chambers of the heart. It sometimes afflicts a normal heart
but it may coour with heart attack, excessive thyroid gland functioning,
rehumatic heart disease and coronary heart disease.
TREATMENT. Medication to reestablish/maintain normal heart rhythm.
.Electric stimulation of the heart may be required.