Neonatal atrial flutter after insertion of an intracardiac umbilical venous catheter
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Neonatal atrial flutter after insertion of an intracardiac umbilical venous catheter
OBJECTIVE To describe a case of neonatal atrial flutter after the insertion of an intracardiac umbilical venous catheter, reporting the clinical presentation and reviewing the literature on this subject. CASE DESCRIPTION A late-preterm newborn, born at 35 weeks of gestational age to a diabetic mother and large for gestational age, with respiratory distress and rule-out sepsis, required an umb...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Paulista de Pediatria (English Edition)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2359-3482
DOI: 10.1016/j.rppede.2015.10.002