Premature ventricular contraction causes

Premature ventricular contractions can occur in a healthy person of any age, however, they are more common in patients with underlying heart disease such as ischemic heart disease and structural heart disease. Patients on tricyclic antidepressant are at risk of having PVCs.

Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.

• Acute cardiac allograft rejection
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Diabetic ketoacidosis
• NSTEMI
• Pulmonary embolism
• Short QT syndrome
• STEMI

• Alcohol
• Amiodarone
• Anxiety disorder
• Azithromycin
• Caffeine consumption
• Cocaine
• Congestive heart failure
• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• Hypercalcemia
• Hypertensive heart disease
• Hypokalemia
• Hypomagnesemia
• Inotropes
• Myocardial infarction
• Pseudoephedrine
• Pulmonary artery catheter
• Sympathomimetics
• Tobacco
• Tricyclic antidepressant
• Valvular heart disease

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• Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated. There are no life-threatening causes of disease name, however complications resulting from untreated disease name is common.
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Common causes of [disease name] may include:

• [Cause1]
• [Cause2]
• [Cause3]

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• [Disease name] is caused by an infection with [pathogen name].
• [Pathogen name] is caused by [pathogen name].

Less common causes of [disease name] include:

• [Cause1]
• [Cause2]
• [Cause3]

• [Disease name] is caused by a mutation in the [gene name] gene.

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