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Premature atrial contractions are often benign, requiring no treatment. Occasionally, the patient having the PAC will find these symptoms bothersome, in which case the doctor may treat the PACs. Sometimes the PACs can indicate heart disease or an increased risk for other cardiac arrhythmias. In this case, the underlying cause is treated.
PAC: premature atrial contraction pulmonary artery catheter, pulmonary artery catheterisation PACU: Post-anesthesia care unit [1] PAD: peripheral artery disease (aka peripheral artery occlusive disease) postadmission day (e.g. PAD 6 equals the sixth day of being in hospital) peripheral airspace disease Passively Acquired anti-D PAF
The balloon, when inflated, causes the catheter to "wedge" in a small pulmonary blood vessel. So wedged, the catheter can provide an indirect measurement of the pressure in the left atrium of the heart, showing a mean pressure, in addition to a, x, v, and y waves which have implications for status of the left atria and the mitral valve.
This is complemented by gastro-coronary reflexes [12] whereby the coronary arteries constrict with "functional cardiovascular symptoms" similar to chest-pain on the left side and radiation to the left shoulder, dyspnea, sweating, up to angina pectoris-like attacks with extrasystoles, drop of blood pressure, and tachycardia (high heart rate) or ...
hemoptysis, the spitting of blood derived from the lungs or bronchial tubes pulmon-, pulmo-of or relating to the lungs: Latin pulmō, a lung pulmonary py-pus: Greek πύον (púon), pus pyometra: pyel-pelvis: Greek πύελος (púelos), pelvis, wash basin pyelonephritis: pykno-to thicken (as the nucleus does in early stages of cell death)
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