Cardiac Arrhythmias in Infants and Children |
Chang Yee Hong |
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University,Seoul,Korea |
小兒의 不整脈 |
洪彰義 |
서울大學校 醫科大學 小兒科學敎室 |
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Abstract |
1.Cardiac arrhythmias which was observed during 3 years and 4 months from March 1973 to August 1975 among 2, 676 patients who visited the Department of Pediatrics and whose ECG were taken because of heart disease or suspicious heart disease were analysed. Simple sinua arrhythmias and bundle branch blocks were excluded from this study. 2. 186 cases of arrhythmis were seen among the 2,676 cases (7%) 3. The types of arrhythmias in the order of frequency are: A-V block, ectopic beat, atrial" fibrillation, paroxysmal tachycardia, A-V dissociation, WPV syndrome, chronic atrial tach-ycardia. 4.The main underlying causes of the sereous cardiac arrhythmias were congenital heart, disease, and after open heart surgery, rheumatic heart disease, and diphtheritic toxic myoc
arditis.
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