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Flutter atrial

Last reviewed: 20 Aug 2025
Last updated: 04 Oct 2024

Summary

Definition

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • agravamento da insuficiência cardíaca ou dos sintomas pulmonares
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • palpitações
  • fadiga ou tontura
  • pulsações venosas jugulares com ondas rápidas de flutter
  • dor torácica
  • dispneia
  • síncope
  • hipotensão
  • eventos embólicos
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Fatores de risco

  • idade mais avançada
  • disfunção valvar
  • defeitos do septo atrial
  • dilatação atrial
  • procedimentos cardíacos ou torácicos recentes
  • cicatrização cirúrgica ou pós-ablação dos átrios
  • insuficiência cardíaca
  • hipertireoidismo
  • doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica (DPOC)
  • asma
  • pneumonia
  • medicamentos antiarrítmicos para fibrilação atrial
  • diabetes
  • uso de digitálicos
  • sexo masculino
  • flutter atrial congênito ou isolado
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • eletrocardiograma (ECG)
  • testes da função tireoidiana
  • eletrólitos séricos
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • testes de função pulmonar
  • radiografia torácica
  • nível de digitálicos
  • enzimas cardíacas
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) helicoidal com protocolo de embolia pulmonar
  • ecocardiograma transtorácico
  • registro do eletrograma atrial
  • estudos eletrofisiológicos
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Algoritmo de tratamento

Inicial

hemodinamicamente instável

AGUDA

pacientes hemodinamicamente estáveis

CONTÍNUA

flutter atrial recorrente ou falha da cardioversão eletiva

Colaboradores

Autores

Katherine C. Wu, MD, FACC

Associate Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University

School of Medicine

Baltimore

MD

Declarações

KCW declares that she has no competing interests.

Revisores

Richard C. Wu, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director

Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory

UT Southwestern Medical Center

University Hospital

St. Paul

Dallas

TX

Declarações

RCW declares that he has no competing interests.

Reginald Ho, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Philadelphia

PA

Disclosures

RH declares that he has no competing interests.

George Juang, MD, FACC

Director of Electrophysiology

Long Island Arrhythmia Center

Mineola

NY

Disclosures

GJ declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Page RL, Joglar JA, Caldwell MA, et al. 2015 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline for the management of adult patients with supraventricular tachycardia. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016 Apr 5;67(13):e27-115.Full text  Abstract

Hindricks G, Potpara T, Dagres N, et al. ESC Scientific Document Group. 2020 ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS): the Task Force for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) developed with the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC. Eur Heart J. 2021 Feb 1;42(5):373-498.Full text  Abstract

Joglar JA, Chung MK, Armbruster AL, et al. 2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS guideline for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on clinical practice guidelines. Circulation. 2024 Jan 2;149(1):e1-156.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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