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A case of occured supraventricular tachycardia based on WPW triggered with chlorpheniramine and phenylephrine in newborn period

10.5350/BTDMJB201713208

  • Levent Korkmaz
  • Abdullah Özyurt
  • Osman Baştuğ
  • Hülya Halis
  • Ali Baykam
  • Mehmet Adnan Öztürk
  • Selim Kurtoğlu

Received Date: 23.09.2013 Accepted Date: 25.06.2014 Med J Bakirkoy 2017;13(2):102-106

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in childhood and neonatal period. It is defined as 1: 200-250 in this period. Clinical findings in the newborns are heavier and may be come across as heart failure and hydrops fetalis. 10-20% of cases have Wolf Parkinson White (WPW) paternity. Sometimes it can cause morbidity and mortality in neonatal period due to drug-resistant and recurrent episodes. In this article, we present a case of SVT developed on the basis of WPW which is the result of the use of phenylephrine in neonatal period.

Keywords: Supraventricular tachycardia, chlorpheniramine, phenylephrine, newborn