Swallowing-induced paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
This report describes an unusual case of swallowing-induced paroxysmal supraventricular (atrial or junctional) tachycardia in a young man without evidence of organic cardiac or esophageal disease. The arrhythmia was apparently potentiated by excessive coffee ingestion. Unlike swallowing-induced brady-arrhythmias which are due to vago-vagal mechanisms, the supraventricular tachycardia in the present case may have been related to an adrenergic reflex.
D000328:Adult; D003069:Coffee; D003679:Deglutition; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology
D003069:Coffee