Atrial Fibrillation
心房纖維顫動
You know the signs…rapid heart beat… shortness of breath…panic ! Sounds like a heart attack , or panic disorder . More often , it is Atrial Fibrillation an irregular heartbeat disorder than can cause the heart to beat more than 300 times a minute . More than 2 million people have Atrial Fibrillation . Here’s what happens : because of a problem with the electrical wiring in the heart , the two small upper chambers , the atrial , quiver instead of beating effectively . This quivering causes the discomfort the patient feels , and can cause the blood to pool and clot .If a piece of blood clot leaves the heart and becomes lodged in an artery in the brain a struck result .About 15% of strokes occur in people with Atrial Fibrillation .
各位都知道徵兆是心跳加快，喘不過氣，以及心慌。聽起來像是心臟病發作或是恐慌症發作。但更可能的是心房纖維性顫動，而這種心跳不規律的毛病，可以使心跳加速到每分鐘三百次以上。美國有兩百萬人罹患心房纖維性顫動。狀況如下，因為心臟電流的問題，心臟上方的兩個心房開始顫動而不是有效的跳動。這種顫動令患者不舒服，而且可能引發血液凝結。如果血塊離開心臟，堵塞腦動脈就會造成中風。大約15%的中風發生在罹患心房纖維性顫動的人身上。

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