Can digoxin and sotalol therapy for fetal supraventricular tachycardia and hydrops be successful? A case report

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 357-359

  Merriman, Jennifer B ^a   Gonzalez, Juan M ^b   Rychik, Jack ^b   Ural, Serdar H ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hydrops; Pregnancy outcome; Supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DIGOXIN; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDROPS; LABORATORY TEST; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; DIGOXIN; FEMALE; FETAL THERAPIES; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; PREGNANCY; SOTALOL; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 45349106315     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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