Paroxysmal tachycardia in infancy.
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Since Bristowe (1887) first described a series of cases of ' recurrent palpitation of extreme rapidity in persons otherwise healthy', paroxysmal tachycardia in adults has become a well-known condition. In children the condition has been considered rare. Taran and Jennings (1937) in a review of the literature found only 52 cases under the age of 15 from 1892 to 1935, to which Johnson (1940) added 11. Wright (1938) was able to discover two cases out of 60,000 admissions to a children's hospital, and Landtman (1947) five in 5,600 children examined at his heart clinic. Neubauer (1945), one of the few British contributors to the subject, described II cases. In infancy, sporadic cases have appeared from time to time, but the condition was regarded as an extreme rarity until Hubbard (1941) detailed nine cases seen by him in the period of one year and reviewed 19 others in the literature. Since then the condition has been recognized with increasing frequency, and has even been noted before birth (Garvin and Kline, 1947; Stadler, 1948). A review of those cases that have been published reveals a uniform clinical picture. It is the purpose of this paper to describe this condition and to give a typical example.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 27 134 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1952