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Review
. 2002 Oct;88(4):426-31.
doi: 10.1136/heart.88.4.426.

Sudden death in children and adolescents

Christopher Wren  1
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Review

Sudden death in children and adolescents

Christopher Wren. Heart. 2002 Oct.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Postoperative ventricular tachycardia in a 14 year old boy with a Rastelli repair of complex transposition who presented with syncope. The left bundle branch block pattern and inferior frontal plane vector indicate an origin from the right ventricular outflow. After electrophysiology study he underwent defibrillator implantation.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Sudden death in acquired QT prolongation. The ambulatory recording shows development of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia which degenerates into ventricular fibrillation and then asystole.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Atrial fibrillation in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in a 10 year old girl with a history of recurrent syncope. There is a rapid, irregular, wide QRS tachycardia with a morphology which matched the pre-excitation seen in sinus rhythm. The accessory pathway was ablated.
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