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Discuss re-entry phenomenon as a cause of cardiac arrhythmias and how and by what drugs are treated?

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A reentry arrhythmia is a self-sustaining cardiac rhythm abnormality in which the action potential propagates in a manner analogous to a closed-loop circuit. It is a disorder of impulse conduction and is discrete from disorders of impulse generation such as automaticity or triggered activity.

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