Successful treatment of congenital atrial flutter with antitachycardia pacing.
Congential atrial flutter is a condition that rarely requires chronic pharmacological therapy. An unusual case of congenital atrial flutter is described which was resistant to medical therapy, yet responded well to antitachycardia pacing. While most experience with antitachycardia pacing in pediatrics has been with the postoperative congenital heart patient, patients such as the one described with unscarred atria may prove to be the most suitable pediatric candidates for this pacing modality.
South Carolina Children's Heart Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
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D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000151:congenital / Q000628:therapy*; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000628:therapy*