Comparison of transplacental treatment of fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmias with digoxin, flecainide, and sotalol: Results of a nonrandomized multicenter study

Circulation

Volumn 124, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1747-1754

  Jaeggi, Edgar T ^a   Carvalho, Julene S ^c   De Groot, Ernestine ^d   Api, Olus ^c   Clur, Sally Ann B ^e   Rammeloo, Lukas ^f   McCrindle, Brian W ^a   Ryan, Greg ^b   Manlhiot, Cedric ^a   Blom, Nico A ^d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; SOTALOL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; DIGOXIN; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL THERAPIES; FLECAINIDE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOTALOL; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054949332     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.026120     Document Type: Article

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