I am a 67 yr old RN with a strong history of osteoarthrits of the spine, hips and feet. I have recently developed a cardiac arrythmia involving bigeminy, trigerminy, greater than 10 pvcs/minute. I was recently hospitalized for these dysrythmias. Minimal symptoms-heart in my throat,irregular pulse, slight shortness of breath and chest heaviness.EKGs show these intermiitent patterns while I am awake and rare ectopic beat while asleep. Echo and lexiscan show a structurally sound heart with no coronary occlusions. Can Thoracic outlet syndrome or cervical disc syndrome cause these symptoms? I have had anterior/posterior fusion of the lumbar spine and have other levels affected by osteo.
Howell come to ChatDoctorThank for askingYour query being appreciated, cardiac finding, episode of arrhythmia, may not be due to the bone pathologies, either it is from the spines, but the underlying cause would be itself within the heart and that needs to be found out, such cardiac symptoms demand several investigation or tests but the causes' leis within the heart itself, it could be ischemia, infraction, or the cardiac myopathy, block of conductive system, (not direct cause), but these are not due to bony lesions hope this information helps.