[Therapy refractory sinus tachycardia following polytrauma].
The course of a 20-year-old patient with head injury and fractures of the ribs is reported, in whom sinus tachycardia has now persisted for three years. Antiarrhythmic treatment with calcium antagonists, beta-blocking agents and digitalis did not reduce the rate of the tachycardia. Contusio cordis, as well as different mechanisms of arrhythmias after cerebral trauma are discussed.
Wagner
W L
WL
Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Innere Medizin, Kardiologie, Bonn.
Nitsch
J
J
Manz
M
M
Lüderitz
B
B
D000328:Adult; D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D006327:Heart Block / Q000188:drug therapy; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D013616:Tachycardia, Sinus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000889:Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Therapierefraktäre Sinustachykardie nach Polytrauma.