Pregnancy and short-coupled torsades de pointes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Burrows, Katherine ^a   Fox, Judy ^a   Biblo, Lee A ^a   Roth, James A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillation ICD; pharmacology; VT

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; CILOSTAZOL; ESMOLOL; ISOPRENALINE; MAGNESIUM; METOPROLOL; QUINIDINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEFIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; RESUSCITATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TELEMETRY; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TORSADES DE POINTES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874785270     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02923.x     Document Type: Article

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