title: Supraventricular tachycardia due to blunt chest trauma in an adolescent.
abstract: Blunt chest trauma and its associated complications represent a rare cause of cardiac arrest in a healthy child, although an increasing number of these events have been reported. Victims are most often diagnosed in ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia. However, cardiac conduction abnormalities are also reported. In this report, a healthy adolescent with supraventricular tachycardia associated with blunt chest trauma due to a football is presented. This is the first report in the literature of atrial arrhythmia in these cases with chest trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey. drhayrullahalp@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Hayrullah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alp
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tamer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baysal
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sevim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karaarslan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D056104:Commotio Cordis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular; D013898:Thoracic Injuries; D014421:Turkey; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating