Infants and children with tachycardia: Natural history and drug administration

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 743-752

  Karpawich, Peter P ^a,b   Pettersen, Michael D ^a   Gupta, Pooja ^a   Shah, Nishant ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Congenital heart; Drug therapy; Infants; Pharmacology; Supraventricular; Tachycardias; Ventricular

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOFETILIDE; ESMOLOL; FLECAINIDE; IBUTILIDE; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MEXILETINE; MORACIZINE; POTASSIUM; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPAFENONE; PROPRANOLOL; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM CARE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; TORSADE DES POINTES;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FETAL THERAPIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 44349147237     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161208784007734     Document Type: Review

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