Refractory idiopathic ventricular tachycardia in a newborn treated successfully with phenytoin: Old therapies are still effective in the current Era

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-77

  Sun, Jie ^a   Shah, Nishant ^a   Karpawich, Peter P ^a   Humes, Richard ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ESMOLOL; PHENYTOIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECTOPIA CORDIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE BIGEMINY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; NEWBORN; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS RHYTHM; ULTRASOUND;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHENYTOIN; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751605591     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-010-9789-3     Document Type: Article

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