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      Atrial flutter secondary to hypokalemia.

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      Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
      Wiley

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          Abstract

          Electrophysiologic studies support significant hypokalemia as a cause of atrial flutter in a patient without manifest heart disease. Atrial flutter, reproducibly initiated and terminated by rapid atrial pacing during hypokalemia, was not inducible after potassium correction. In an individual with existing atrial conduction disease, hypokalemia may generate both non-uniform atrial refractoriness and atrial premature beats, and it may facilitate the development of atrial flutter as a re-entrant arrhythmia.

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          Journal
          Pacing Clin Electrophysiol
          Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
          Wiley
          0147-8389
          0147-8389
          Jan 1983
          : 6
          : 1 Pt 1
          Article
          10.1111/j.1540-8159.1983.tb06574.x
          6188128
          d58cf9aa-04be-4c4a-bd3c-5d579692e682
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