Cardiac/Celiac

[KateMae]

I was diagnosed with Celiac 10+yrs ago. I am extremely strict with my disease. I do not cheat, cross contaminate, ext. Ever since I was diagnosed I have been having increasingly uncontrolled cardiac problems. With a very recent 30 day loop recording this is the finding.

Sinus Arrhythmia
Uniform VE's
Trigeminy
Sinus Rhythm
Sinus Tachycardia.
SVE's
Rare PVC,
Sinus Bradycardia
in a past 24hr holter show PAC, this one did not.

All of these came back from the 30 loop recording that they finally decided to do after having several EKG's which showed:

under an episode: Biatrial Enlargement, Incomplete Bundle Branch Block, Abnormal EKG

no know episode: possible left atrial enlargement, Borderline ECG

The Doctor keeps telling me that ever time I have an episode to come into the office, I am tired of them milking my insurance. I am tired of not getting answers to my questions. Not knowing if more should be done. Should I be on medication? I want to know what this all means? I would like a description on each condition? is there something else underlying or could there be? Could there be another disease that is making all this happen? How dangerous is all of these that are happening together?

When they do happen, I physically feel like ****....I feel like I am gonna drop dead and I cant function....

[Fuzzz]

Sinus Arrhythmia:  Irregularity of the heart rate related to functioning of the sinoatrial node.

Uniform VE's = ventricular extrasystole:  A premature contraction of the ventricle. Also called infranodal extrasystole.

Trigeminy:  A cardiac arrhythmia in which the beats are grouped in trios, usually composed of a sinus beat followed by two extrasystoles.

Sinus rhythm:  The normal regular cardiac rhythm stimulated by the sinoatrial node.

Sinus tachycardia. A fast heartbeat (tachycardia) occurring because of rapid firing by the sa node, the natural pacemaker of the heart. Electrical signals initiated in the sa node are transmitted to the atria and the ventricles to stimulate heart muscle contractions heartbeats. Sinus tachycardia is usually a rapid contraction of a normal heart in response to a condition, drug, or disease as, for examples, pain, fever, excessive thyroid hormone, exertion, excitement, low blood oxygen level (hypoxia), or stimulant drugs such as caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines. However, in some cases, it can be a sign of heart failure, heart valve disease, or other illness.

SVE:  supraventricular extrasystole

PVC:  premature ventricular contraction

Sinus bradycardia:   Bradycardia originating in the normal sinus pacemaker.

Bradycardia:  A slowness of the pulse rate to less than 60 beats per minute.  

PAC:  premature atrial contraction

Biatrial enlargement:  The ECG has signs of both left and right atrial enlargement.

Incomplete bundle branch block:  The speed (rate) of the heart, is controlled by a small area of heart-muscle called the "Pacemaker," or the "SA Node," - - which is physically located in the wall of the right upper chamber, called the "right atrium," or "RA".

How what the pacemaker is telling the whole heart to do, gets to the rest of the heart, - is, - down a special nerve-fiber or "telephone wire."

After a little bit this telephone-wire splits into two wires, - one wire to the right ventricle or RV, (called the right bundle branch), and one wire to the left ventricle or LV, called the "left bundle branch."

If the right-sided wire is blocked (or cut), then the left ventricle still knows what rhythm to keep in-time to, but the right ventricle doesn't , - - so the right and left ventricles stop beating EXACTLY in time together.

This is not especially serious and your heart is not going to stop.

Arteriosclerotic (coronary artery disease) and hypertensive heart disease (left ventricular and probable septal wall hypertrophy) are the two most common clinical and anatomic entities associated with the ILBBB.

left atrial enlargement.  Enlargement of the left upper chamber of the heart.  Left atrial enlargement can occur in association with systemic hypertension, aortic stenosis, mitral incompetence, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.