Hi, welcome You'll find a lot of helpful people here.

I sometimes get PVCs that happen that often. They seem to worsen when I stress about them though. I can go hours without having them, or I'll have them every few beats. Like right now I'm thumping away, haha.

I don't know anything about RVOT, but I do know that you should definitely NOT use google when trying to find medical information. It only serves to scare the living daylights out of non-medical professionals like us.

I hope RLR will drop in and set your mind at ease, and welcome again.

Andrea

Hi Lorri and welcome to the forum. You can take a deep breath and relax. You're going to be just fine.

Right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia is entirely benign condition.

The only time it can represent a concern is when we see previous evidence of anatomical changes within the structure of the heart and you would have been experiencing difficulty prior to the arrival of this present diagnosis. RVOT typically arises from an after-effect of right ventricular depolarization (right ventricular beat within the cardiac cycle). The prevalence tends to be increased among young females.

Having said that, I would question whether you and your cardiologist are speaking of the same phenomenon. You describe typical ectopic events and I have to tell you here that the most common underlying cause for such events is related to inappropriate stimulation by the vagus nerve as a consequence of stress and/or anxiety. By contrast, the most common clinical sign observed in RVOT is ventricular tachycardia. While paroxsymal heart beats do occur with the disorder, they are usually persistent over time rather than infrequent.

My point is not to challenge your specialist's diagnosis to any extent whatsoever, but merely to point out an inconsistency. In either instance, you are in no danger whatsoever and if the condition is indeed present, it will not shorten your life by even as much as a second of time.

Again, welcome to the forum.

Best regards,

Rutheford Rane, MD (ret.)

Thankyou RLR, the cardiologist did say that although i was very symptomatic with my eptopics (sometimes every 3rd beat) they were not connected to this RVOT.  I cant thank you enough for your reply, i was up the whole night lastnight in tears and hot sweats, thankyou so so much for easing my mind.  I do also have trivial MR, im hoping that is not an added complication for the rvot?  thankyou again for the reply and for taking the time to provide this wonderful, sanity saving service