Treatment of junctional rhythm after heart transplantation with terbutaline.
Atrial and junctional arrhythmias may occur after heart transplantation. Often these arrhythmias require intravenous beta-agonists or atrial pacing to improve posttransplant hemodynamic values. We describe a heart transplant patient with a hemodynamically significant junctional rhythm who responded to oral terbutaline with conversion to sinus rhythm.
Cook
L S
LS
Arkansas Cardiovascular Research and Transplant Center, University of Arkansas, Little Rock 72205.
Will
K R
KR
Moran
J
J
D000328:Adult; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013726:Terbutaline / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013997:Time Factors
D007545:Isoproterenol; D013726:Terbutaline