Managing palpitations and arrhythmias during pregnancy

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1630-1636

  Adamson, Dawn L ^b,c   Nelson Piercy, Catherine ^a,c  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMIODARONE; ATENOLOL; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPAFENONE; PROPRANOLOL; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID FUNCTION; VASODILATATION;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 36749056900     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.098822     Document Type: Article

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