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Fetal/neonatal supraventricular tachycardia
Martin L Gimovsky1, Munir Nazir, Emad Hashemi
1Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of OBGYN, Newark Beth Israel Medical center, Newark, NJ 07112, USA.
Abstract:
At 38 weeks of gestation, a woman with a previously unremarkable pregnancy was noted to have fetal tachycardia without obvious cause. Fetal echocardiography resulted in a presumptive diagnosis of fetal atrial flutter with a 2:1 block. The newborn resumed the same rhythm. The neonate underwent transesophageal incremental overdrive pacing. A normal sinus rhythm was restored. The infant had no recurrence to age 6 months.