Background Ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death late after repair of tetralogy of
Fallot are devastating complications in adult survivors of early surgery, but their prediction …

Background Although radiofrequency catheter ablation has been used extensively to treat
refractory supraventricular tachycardia in adults, few data are available on its safety and …

BACKGROUND The Pediatric Electrophysiology Society studied children with the long QT
syndrome (LQTS) to describe the features of LQTS in patients less than 21 years old, define …

The records of 90 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who presented with
supraventricular tachycardia in the first 4 months of life were reviewed. Among these, 63 …

ACC/AHA guidelines for clinical intracardiac electrophysiologic studies were first published
in 1989. Since then significant changes have occurred, and this report is an update of the …

We reviewed the records of 217 children whose first episode of supraventricular tachycardia
occurred before 18 years (median age 24 months). There were 112 males and 105 females …

The potential for proarrhythmic responses to the class IC sodium channel-blocking drugs
encainide and flecainide has not been well described in young patients. Therefore, data …

Ventricular arrhythmias in patients after total surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot have been
associated with late sudden death. In this large multicenter retrospective study of 359 …

Two cases of congestive cardiomyopathy were proved to be due to chronic atrial automatic-
focus tachycardia. Surgical elimination of the tachycardia resulted in normalization of …

Sudden death in children as in adults is usually due to cardiac disease. Sudden death in the
pediatric population may be divided into the sudden infant death syndrome, sudden death in …