{"pk":16971,"title":"Violent Hiccups: An Infrequent Cause of Bradyarrhythmias","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A hiccup, or singultus, results from a sudden, simultaneous, vigorous contraction of the diaphragm and inspiratory muscles, accompanied by closure of the glottis. Hiccups can be associated with bradyarrhythmias. The mechanism of this phenomenon is likely hiccup-induced Valsalva maneuver and increased parasympathetic tone. We present a case of a patient with violent hiccups producing a bradyarrhythmia.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2009;10:176-177.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"hiccups"},{"word":"bradyarrhythmia"},{"word":"Valsalva"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7913w14x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Suh","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Orange CA","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Subramaniam","middle_name":"C","last_name":"Krishnan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Orange CA","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-10-04T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-10-04T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-08-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16971/galley/8581/download/"}]}