선천성 심장병에 동반된 난치성 상심실성 빈맥에 의한 태아수종을 보이는 미숙아 환아에서 Amiodarone및 Digoxin 병합 치료 1례

선천성 심장병에 동반된 난치성 상심실성 빈맥에 의한 태아수종을 보이는 미숙아 환아에서 Amiodarone및 Digoxin 병합 치료 1례

Combination therapies of amiodarone and digoxin for refractory supraventricular tachycardia accompanied by congenital heart diseases in a preterm infant with hyrops fetalis

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Release Date : 2013. 10. 18(금)
Chang Woo Han¹, Ha Yang Yu¹, Jeong Eun Shin¹, Ho Seon Eun¹, Sun Min Lee², Min Soo Park¹, Nam Gung Ran¹, Chel Lee¹, Kook In Park¹
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Severance children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea¹
한창우¹, 유하양¹, 신정은¹, 은호선¹, 이순민², 박민수¹, 남궁란¹, 이철¹, 박국인¹
신생아 분과, 소아과, 세브란스 어린이병원, 연세의과대학, 서울, 한국

Abstract

Fetal tachycardia is at risk for developing low cardiac output, non-immune hydrops fetalis and ultimately fetal death. Sontaneous resolution of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is common in an infant during the first year of age, but some need long-term antiarrhythmic therapy. Including SVT in almost neonatal tachyarrhythmia, adenosine is the drug of the first choice. Digoxin is used to treat the SVT which is not controlled with adenosine. Class Ic and Class III antiarrhythmic drugs are recommended for the disease unresponsive to digoxin. Intravenous amiodarone is highly effective and safe in an infant with refractory or life threatening tachycardia. Some cases have been reported that amiodarone combined with digoxin therapy is effective. We report a case of a preterm infant born at 32weeks of gestational age with hydrops fetalis and life-threatening refractory SVT accompanied by multiple congenital heart diseases. SVT was initially not responsive to adenosine therapy and then successfully controlled with combination therapies of amiodarone and digoxin.

Keywords: Refractory supraventricular tachycardia, amiodarone, Non-immune hydrops fetalis