Junctional ectopic tachycardia in neonatal enterovirus myocarditis

Junctional ectopic tachycardia in neonatal enterovirus myocarditis

Abstract Differential diagnosis is challenging in poor conditioned neonates referred to the emergency room. Infectious disease is common, yet tachycardia should alert the clinician to look for cardiac arrhythmia and comprise. Tachycardia can lead to cardiomyopathy and should warrant further diagnost...

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Main Authors: Johannes Weickmann, Roman Antonin Gebauer, Christian Paech
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-06-01
Series:Clinical Case Reports
Subjects:
echovirus 6
enterovirus
junctional ectopic tachycardia
myocarditis
newborn
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2796
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Summary:Abstract Differential diagnosis is challenging in poor conditioned neonates referred to the emergency room. Infectious disease is common, yet tachycardia should alert the clinician to look for cardiac arrhythmia and comprise. Tachycardia can lead to cardiomyopathy and should warrant further diagnostics for myocarditis, especially in rare or unusual combination of arrhythmias.
ISSN:2050-0904

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