title: Permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia misdiagnosed as 'cardiomyopathy'.
abstract: In a nine-year-old female, cardiac failure was erroneously attributed to idiopathic cardiomyopathy and cardiac transplantation was planned. The actual cause of cardiac failure was permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia (PJRT), a rare form of supraventricular tachycardia. The diagnostic error was discovered before transplantation was performed and the arrhythmia was treated surgically. This resulted in return of near normal cardiac function.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Uther
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery