Atrial Fibrillation with Ventricular Pre-excitation after Intravenous Adenosine as a Treatment of Supraventricular Tachycardia
Korean Circulation Journal
; : 933-935, 2003.
Article
ي Ko
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ABSTRACT
Adenosine is well known as a safe and effective drug for the termination of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), and is also widely used for the termination of both narrow and wide QRS-complex tachycardia of unknown origin in the setting of hemodynamic stability. However, due to a shortening of atrial refractoriness, adenosine can facilitate the induction of atrial fibrillation. A life threatening tachycardia may result from a potential rapid conduction of the atrial fibrillation over an accessory pathway. A case of patient, where the intravenous administration of adenosine, during regular, narrow QRS tachycardia, was followed by atrial fibrillation with rapid conduction over a manifest accessory pathway, is reported.
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الفهرس:
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الموضوع الرئيسي:
Atrial Fibrillation
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Tachycardia
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Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
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Tachycardia, Supraventricular
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Adenosine
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Administration, Intravenous
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Hemodynamics
المحددات:
Humans
اللغة:
Ko
مجلة:
Korean Circulation Journal
السنة:
2003
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