Tachycardia and heart failure after ritual circumcision.
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 62 (1) , 80-81
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.62.1.80
Abstract
Four newborn babies developed acute heart failure a few hours after circumcision at 8 days. During this procedure, a sponge soaked in epinephrine was applied to the circumcision site and left there for several hours. Treatment was with digoxin and diuretics and signs of heart failure disappeared within 24-72 hours.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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