PVC+BLOOD PRESSURE

[gopo92]

When a person gets a pvc the next beat comes more forcefully. Does this beat increases the blood pressure at that moment and if so is it dangerous????

[SassyLassie]

I have a little booklet that I got at a Seattle hospital about heart arrhythmias, and it states that the forceful beat after the pause is the heart pushing the extra blood through the arteries and that causes the feeling of the beat being harder than before.

As to the blood pressure being increased, I really doubt it, I also doubt if it is dangerous, gosh, PAC's and PVC's are very common, and from all I have read here and in books, they are not life threatening at all except in rare cases.

[Zachs]

If you're experiencing a more forceful beat, I would beg to guess that it's being caused from Atrial Flutter, not a PVC..

[Bromley]

This observation is counter-intuitive to me. Depending on its origin or cause, a pvc can occur at any point in the cycle. The subsequent beat would presumably be a normal beat, so it doesn't follow that it would have to be more forceful than other normal beats, or even the PVC, does it? If it is more forceful, it may be that the states of the heart (volume of fluid in each chamber for example) and pressures in the pipes feeding it would have to be different for that one beat, than they are for normal beats occurring with regular periodicity, in a way that causes pressure to be higher for that one beat.

In any case, I admire the question, but think that analyzing it too much could lead you in the wrong direction, unless you happen to be a research scientist. For most of us, doctors just tell us that frequent PVC's can lead to issues such as HCM; whereas infrequent PVC's are mostly a non-issue, structural abnormalities aside.

Interesting question. Are you a researcher?