• Indian heart journal · May 2009

    Case Reports

    Myocarditis presenting as junctional ectopic tachycardia.

    • Sreeja Pavithran, Sanjay Khatri, Bhagyavathy A Bagyaraj, Ulhas M Pandurangi, and R Suresh Kumar.
    • Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India.
    • Indian Heart J. 2009 May 1;61(3):288-9.

    AbstractJunctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is an unusual arrhythmia in children. It is usually described as a congenital tachycardia or as occurring in the postoperative setting. Here we report the case of an 8-year-old girl who presented with JET in the context of viral myocarditis and its later subsidence which could have been in response to Carvedilol therapy.

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