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Fetal ventricular tachycardia in long QT syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Miho Yamada ,
Makoto Nakazawa  and
Kazuo Momma
Miho Yamada*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology. The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan
Makoto Nakazawa
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology. The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuo Momma
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology. The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan
*
Miho Yamada, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, 8-1 Kawada-cho Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162Japan Tel 03-3353-8111 Fax 03-3356-0441
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Abstract

We report a case of a fetus presenting intermittent ventricular tachycardia during midgestation, whose mother had long QT syndrome. The arrhythmia disappeared spontaneously, and the electrocardiogram of the baby after birth showed prolonged QTc. As far as we are aware, this is the first case in which ventricular tachycardia was documented during fetal life in a baby with long QT syndrome.

Keywords

Long QT syndromefetal echocardiographyfetal ventricular tachycardia
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 119 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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