Conservative treatment of paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia during pregnancy.
Paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia during pregnancy presents a therapeutic dilemma for the treating physician. The clinical course of two otherwise healthy pregnant patients with this arrhythmia in whom treatment was withheld is outlined. The indications and guidelines for treatment in relatively asymptomatic patients is discussed.
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Division of Cardiology, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
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Thamer
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D000328:Adult; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*