Successful treatment of fetal atrial flutter and congestive heart failure.
Fetal supraventricular tachycardia may cause congestive heart failure, hydrops fetalis, and intrauterine death. Tachycardia in a fetus of 34 weeks' gestation was diagnosed as atrial flutter by echocardiography, and was successfully treated by giving the mother digoxin.
D000328:Adult; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004077:Digoxin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods
D004077:Digoxin