Aberrancy vs PVCs

[Kaz747]

I decided to send last night’s Kardia results to them for analysis. It came back confirming atrial fibrillation (no surprises there). Then it said, “aberrancy vs PVCs”. Does anyone know what this means?

I know what PVCs are but I’m not sure what this statement means. By the way I saw my GP today who said, “I see you have pericarditis”. I guess that’s what my EP meant when he said I had extreme inflammation issues and it could take 2-3 months to settle down.

[Vonnieruth]

Definition of aberrant (Entry 1 of 2)

1 : deviating from the usual or natural type : ATYPICAL, ABNORMAL

aberrant behavior

I don't intend to suggest that his psychology was in some way aberrant or neurotic …

— Michael Chabon

2 : straying from the right or normal way

aberrant misfits

[BobD Volunteer]

Pericarditis = inflamation of the sack in which lives the heart.

[Finvola]

Hi Kaz - I can only tell you my slight experience with aberrancy. I had 15 very fast beats (200bpm) show up on a Holter monitor. They looked like 15 consecutive PVC’s on the trace which my cardiologist showed me and explained - I hardly heard him as he had mentioned VT and scared the willies out of me!

Apparently, more than three consecutive PVC’s is called non-sustained VT but he told me that it is quite difficult sometimes to distinguish between SVT with aberrant conduction and non-sustained VT (ie a run of PVC’s).

Kardia analysis sounds like it is saying you could have consecutive PVC’s or SVT with aberrancy. I hope this helps - it certainly confused me and took an awful lot of research!!!

Edit: Forgot to say that the aberrancy comes from the pathway which the signal follows - ie not the normal one from the atria.

[Kaz747 in reply to Finvola]

Thanks Finvola. When I was googling to try and work it out I came across references to VT which scared the willies out of me too 😱

[Finvola in reply to Kaz747]

Yes - sometimes a little knowledge is a disadvantage! I asked my cardiologist straight out ‘Are you in any way concerned about this?’ He said no, so I believed him - eventually. 😃

[Kaz747]

Thanks DrDave. I’m learning so much on my arrhythmia adventure.

[Finvola]

Thank you DrDave - something else learned about this endless condition.