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Repetitive Supraventricular Tachycardia: Clinical Manifestations and Response to Therapy with Amiodarone
Author(s) -
HAINES DAVID E.,
LERMAN BRUCE B.,
DIMARCO JOHN P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1986.tb05370.x
Subject(s) - medicine , amiodarone , supraventricular tachycardia , cardiology , supraventricular arrhythmia , tachycardia , heart disease , anesthesia , atrial fibrillation
Repetitive supraventricular tachycardia is an uncommon arrhythmia which usually occurs in patients free of structural heart disease. It is characterized by incessant short salvos of supraventricular tachycardia separated by only one or two normal sinus beats. Therapy with conventional antiarrhythmic drugs is usually ineffective. This report describes three patients with repetitive supraventricular tachycardia in whom evidence for associated sinus node dysfunction was observed. Amiodarone therapy, with ventricular pacing in two patients, has provided effective control of this arrhythmia in all three patients.