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Traumatic Heart Disease in a 6‐Year Old Girl
Author(s) -
VESTERDAL JØRGEN
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1952.tb17019.x
Subject(s) - girl , fist , medicine , quinidine , ventricle , sinus rhythm , cardiology , ventricular tachycardia , paroxysmal tachycardia , sustained ventricular tachycardia , sinus tachycardia , normal sinus rhythm , anesthesia , tachycardia , psychology , anatomy , atrial fibrillation , developmental psychology
Summary The author reports a case of ventricular paroxysmal tachycardia combined with atrio‐ventricular block, arising after a fist‐blow in the chest in a girl of six. Sinus rhythm was obtained with quinidine. ACTH had no demonstrable effect on the scar presumably present in the right ventricle.