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Successful use of intravenous amiodarone in a child with combined postoperative junctional and ectopic tachycardias

  • Mehmet Karacan (a1), Haşim Olgun (a1) and Necip Becit (a2)
Abstract

Early postoperative arrhythmias are a known complication of cardiac surgery. It is unusual, however, to encounter postoperative junctional and ectopic atrial tachycardias in the same patient. We describe our experience with a 2-year-old girl who suffered both these tachycardias after repair of a ventricular septal defect, the abnormal rhythms being controlled solely with intravenous administration of amiodarone.

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COPYRIGHT: © Cambridge University Press 2009
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Correspondence to: Mehmet Karacan, MD, Solakzade Mh. Mevlana Cd. Şark 2000 Yapı, Koop. C Blok No. 3, Yenişehir, Erzurum, Turkey. Tel: 90 442 31716 90 (home); 90 442 2316849 (work); 90 533 567 82 86 (cellular); Fax: 90 442 2361301; E-mail: mehmet.karacan@gmail.com
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Cardiology in the Young
  • ISSN: 1047-9511
  • EISSN: 1467-1107
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