Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery

We report two cases of malignant junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET), in infants following congenital heart surgery. After the failure of conventional therapy the arrhythmia was controlled by oral Ivabradine, a drug which is routinely used to lower heart rate in angina and heart failure in adult pr...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Vivek, Kumar, Gaurav, Joshi, Sajan, Sharma, Vipul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29054199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.007
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spelling pubmed-56505592018-09-01 Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Gaurav Joshi, Sajan Sharma, Vipul Indian Heart J Research Letter We report two cases of malignant junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET), in infants following congenital heart surgery. After the failure of conventional therapy the arrhythmia was controlled by oral Ivabradine, a drug which is routinely used to lower heart rate in angina and heart failure in adult practice. Elsevier 2017 2017-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5650559/ /pubmed/29054199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.007 Text en © 2017 Published by Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier India, Pvt. Ltd. on behalf of Cardiological Society of India. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kumar, Vivek
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Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title_full Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title_fullStr Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title_full_unstemmed Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title_short Ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
title_sort ivabradine for junctional ectopic tachycardia in post congenital heart surgery
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29054199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.007
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