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Atrial tachycardias are not frequent if atrial fibrillation (Chapter 21) and atrial flutter (Chapter 20) are excluded. The types of atrial tachycardia differ with respect to morphology of the p wave, atrial rate, atrioventricular conduction, duration of the arrhythmia, hemodynamic consequences, electrophysiologic mechanisms, and etiology.
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Gertsch, M. (2004). Atrial Tachycardia. In: The ECG. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10315-9_20
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