A newborn with a complex congenital heart disease, atrioventricular block, and torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2664-2667

  Kantoch, Michal J ^a,b   Qurashi, Mansour M ^a   Bulbul, Zead R ^a   Gorgels, Anton P M ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; NEWBORN; TORSADE DES POINTES; WENCKEBACH PERIOD;

CISAPRIDE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; ISOPROTERENOL; LONG QT SYNDROME; TORSADES DE POINTES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0032422656     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00043.x     Document Type: Article

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