Re: Symptoms or side effects? --SVT vs. Afib

[Guest guest]

Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective term

for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE (supra)

the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

Can somebody shed some light on the differences?

S.

> <snip>

> I asked my doc about this because I have had some things lately

where

> I feel compelled to cough, and they stop when I cough. He

> said " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. " I am not sure I can

> deduce anything from this. I have only had one set of stuff

> identified as svt years ago. <snip>

[Guest guest]

Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective term

for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE (supra)

the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

Can somebody shed some light on the differences?

S.

> <snip>

> I asked my doc about this because I have had some things lately

where

> I feel compelled to cough, and they stop when I cough. He

> said " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. " I am not sure I can

> deduce anything from this. I have only had one set of stuff

> identified as svt years ago. <snip>

[Guest guest]

Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective term

for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE (supra)

the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

Can somebody shed some light on the differences?

S.

> <snip>

> I asked my doc about this because I have had some things lately

where

> I feel compelled to cough, and they stop when I cough. He

> said " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. " I am not sure I can

> deduce anything from this. I have only had one set of stuff

> identified as svt years ago. <snip>

[Guest guest]

> Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

> for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

> that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

>

> Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

> another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective

term

> for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE

(supra)

> the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

> these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

>

Both of my cardiologists have spoken in this way. I never asked them

to differentiate, as to me there was a giant difference in what the

two things they referred to felt like to me, so I assume they are

different.

However, other people on this board have in the past raised the same

question you have.

[Guest guest]

> Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

> for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

> that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

>

> Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

> another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective

term

> for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE

(supra)

> the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

> these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

>

Both of my cardiologists have spoken in this way. I never asked them

to differentiate, as to me there was a giant difference in what the

two things they referred to felt like to me, so I assume they are

different.

However, other people on this board have in the past raised the same

question you have.

[Guest guest]

> Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning tool

> for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

> that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

>

> Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

> another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective

term

> for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE

(supra)

> the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks of

> these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

>

Both of my cardiologists have spoken in this way. I never asked them

to differentiate, as to me there was a giant difference in what the

two things they referred to felt like to me, so I assume they are

different.

However, other people on this board have in the past raised the same

question you have.

[Guest guest]

> > Open question: Since I use this forum primarily as a learning

tool

> > for my own benefit I must ask about the doctor's comment

> > that " coughing can stop svt, but not afib. "

> >

> > Until I read that I always thought that Afib was just

> > another 'variety' of SVT. In other words, SVT was a collective

> term

> > for ALL the types of cardio arrhythmias that originated ABOVE

> (supra)

> > the ventricles. Apparently the doctor's comment means he thinks

of

> > these two as totally different forms of arrhythmia.

> >

>

> Both of my cardiologists have spoken in this way. I never asked

them

> to differentiate, as to me there was a giant difference in what

the

> two things they referred to felt like to me, so I assume they are

> different.

>

> However, other people on this board have in the past raised the

same

> question you have.

Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, AV node

reentry tachycardia, and AV reentry tachycardia (WPW) are all forms

of SVT, SVT being a generic descriptive. Perhaps the doctor was

differentiating between afib and aflutter re: coughing....?

[Guest guest]

> Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, AV node

> reentry tachycardia, and AV reentry tachycardia (WPW) are all forms

> of SVT, SVT being a generic descriptive. Perhaps the doctor was

> differentiating between afib and aflutter re: coughing....?

>

>

>

Rather confusingly SVT is of most often used when the heart rate is fast

and regular

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc.asp?doc=23069180

even though atrial fibrillation is an SVT

http://www.prodigy.nhs.uk/guidance.asp?gt=SVT%20-%20paroxysmal

and

http://www.hrspatients.org/patients/heart_disorders/atrial_fibrillation/default.\

asp

There will always be confusion using the term SVT and if your doctor mentions it

you

should ask him/her to clarify what SVT means to them

--

D