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Michel, Holger ; Heißenhuber, Frank ; Wellmann, Sven ; Melter, Michael ; Gerling, Stephan

Ectopic Atrial Tachycardia in a 12-Month-Old Girl Treated With Ivabradine and Beta-Blocker, a Case Report

Michel, Holger, Heißenhuber, Frank, Wellmann, Sven, Melter, Michael and Gerling, Stephan (2020) Ectopic Atrial Tachycardia in a 12-Month-Old Girl Treated With Ivabradine and Beta-Blocker, a Case Report. Frontiers in Pediatrics 8 (313), pp. 1-5.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 02 Nov 2020 12:39
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.43884


Abstract

We report on a 12-month-old girl with an ectopic atrial tachycardia successfully treated with the combination of a beta blocking agent and Ivabradine that acts on cardiac pacemaker cells by selectively inhibiting the I(f)channel. Standard therapy had failed to control the tachycardia before. No side effects attributable to Ivabradine were noticed. Due to its mechanism of action Ivabradine is a ...

We report on a 12-month-old girl with an ectopic atrial tachycardia successfully treated with the combination of a beta blocking agent and Ivabradine that acts on cardiac pacemaker cells by selectively inhibiting the I(f)channel. Standard therapy had failed to control the tachycardia before. No side effects attributable to Ivabradine were noticed. Due to its mechanism of action Ivabradine is a promising novel agent for the therapy of tachycardia due to increased automaticity. Reports on the use of Ivabradine in young children or infants are rare, but show promising results for congenital junctional ectopic tachycardia. This report adds the second case of ectopic atrial tachycardia in this age group and novel treatment with Ivabradine to the literature.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleFrontiers in Pediatrics
Publisher:Frontiers
Place of Publication:LAUSANNE
Volume:8
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:313
Page Range:pp. 1-5
Date16 June 2020
InstitutionsMedicine > Lehrstuhl für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
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10.3389/fped.2020.00313DOI
KeywordsCHILDREN; tachycardia; atrial; Ivabradine; beta-blocker; children; case report
Dewey Decimal Classification600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-438843
Item ID43884

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