Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil

Sildenafil is used in infants and children mainly for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease. Some side-effects of sildenafil are similar to the symptoms and signs of congestive heart failure in children. We present a case of a two-month-old infant with supr...

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Autores principales: Zaki, Syed Ahmed, Dadge, Deepak, Asif, Shujaath, Shanbag, Preeti
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20442825
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.55203
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author Zaki, Syed Ahmed
Dadge, Deepak
Asif, Shujaath
Shanbag, Preeti
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description Sildenafil is used in infants and children mainly for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease. Some side-effects of sildenafil are similar to the symptoms and signs of congestive heart failure in children. We present a case of a two-month-old infant with supracardiac total anomalous venous connection and pulmonary hypertension, who presented with severe sweating and tachycardia after institution of sildenafil therapy. He improved dramatically on discontinuation of the drug.
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spelling pubmed-28618182010-05-04 Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil Zaki, Syed Ahmed Dadge, Deepak Asif, Shujaath Shanbag, Preeti Indian J Pharmacol Short Communication Sildenafil is used in infants and children mainly for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease. Some side-effects of sildenafil are similar to the symptoms and signs of congestive heart failure in children. We present a case of a two-month-old infant with supracardiac total anomalous venous connection and pulmonary hypertension, who presented with severe sweating and tachycardia after institution of sildenafil therapy. He improved dramatically on discontinuation of the drug. Medknow Publications 2009-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2861818/ /pubmed/20442825 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.55203 Text en © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zaki, Syed Ahmed
Dadge, Deepak
Asif, Shujaath
Shanbag, Preeti
Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title_full Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title_fullStr Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title_full_unstemmed Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title_short Diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
title_sort diagnostic dilemma in a child with congenital heart disease on sildenafil
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20442825
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.55203
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