Supraventricular tachycardia associated with methylphenidate treatment in a heart transplant recipient

Psychosomatics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 461-463

  Come, Carolyn E ^a   Shapiro, Peter A ^a  

^a Box 427 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CALCIUM; CITRATE CALCIUM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOBUTAMINE; DOCUSATE SODIUM; DOPAMINE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERROUS GLUCONATE; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; ISOPHANE INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPHENIDATE; MULTIVITAMIN; NORADRENALIN; NYSTATIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; PRAVASTATIN; PREDNISONE; SERTRALINE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VERAPAMIL; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOTENSION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RESUSCITATION; SIDE EFFECT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; METHYLPHENIDATE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 32944476365     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.46.5.461     Document Type: Letter

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