Successful treatment of fetal atrial flutter and congestive heart failure.
Open Access
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (2) , 158-160
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.2.158
Abstract
Fetal supraventricular tachycardia may cause congestive heart failure, hydrops fetalis, and intrauterine death. Tachycardia in a fetus of 34 weeks' gestation was diagnosed as atrial flutter by echocardiography, and was successfully treated by giving the mother digoxin.Keywords
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