Successful management of supraventricular tachycardia in a fetus using fetal magnetocardiography

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 459-462

  Abe, Kanako ^a   Hamada, Hiromi ^a   Chen, Yang Jen ^a   Abe, Azusa ^a   Watanabe, Hideki ^a   Fujiki, Yutaka ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Horigome, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal arrhythmia; Fetal therapy; Magnetocardiography; Prenatal diagnosis; Sotalol; Supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; SOTALOL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETICS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SOTALOL; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 23944472634     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086832     Document Type: Article

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