Is steroid therapy enough to reverse complete atrioventricular block after percutaneous perimembranous ventricular septal defect closure?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 412-414

  Butera, Gianfranco ^a   Gaio, Gianpiero ^a   Carminati, Mario ^a  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Complete atrioventricular block; Ventricular septal defect

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; DRUG COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; INSTRUMENTATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASPIRIN; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE; STEROIDS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 66349105307     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32832401c2     Document Type: Article

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