Supraventricular tachycardias in the first year of life: what is the best pharmacological treatment? 24 years of experience in a single centre

Table 1 Characteristics of the patients with re-entry tachycardias

	Types of re-entry	Onset (days)	CHD	Maximum HR (bpm)	Symptoms	Maintenance therapy	Time to CV (days)
1	AVRT	32		300	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	7
2	AVRT	Fetal		280	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	15
3	AVRT	1		280	Minor	Flecainide + sotalol	8
4	AVRT	64		240	Minor	Flecainide	1
5	AVRT	18		300	HF	Flecainide	1
6	AVNRT	1		240	Minor	Flecainide	1
7	AVRT	230		300	HF	Flecainide	1
8	AVRT	2		270	Minor	Flecainide	1
9	AVRT	12		250	Minor	Flecainide	1
10	AVRT	14			Minor	Flecainide	1
11	AVRT	10		280	HF	Flecainide	1
12	AVRT	13		320	Shock	Flecainide	1
13	AVRT	1		250	HF	Amiodarone + nadolol	22
14	AVRT	1		320	Minor	Flecainide	1
15	AVRT	256		300	Minor	Flecainide + sotalol	7
16	AVRT	56		260	HF	Flecainide	1
17	AVNRT	6		260	Minor	Flecainide	1
18	AVRT	1		261	Minor	Flecainide + propranolol	15
19	AVNRT	13	VSD	215	Minor	Flecainide	1
20	AVRT	15			HF	Flecainide + digoxin	7
21	AVRT	26		280		Flecainide + digoxin	4
22	AVRT	11				Flecainide + digoxin	2
23	AVRT	Fetal			HF	Flecainide + sotalol	15
24	AVRT	10		340	HF	Flecainide	1
25	AVRT	36		280	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	3
26	AVRT	72		300	HF	Flecainide	1
27	AVRT	27		280	Minor	Flecainide + digoxin	4
28	AVRT	8		300	Shock	Flecainide	D
29	AVRT	15		260	HF	Flecainide	1
30	AVRT	Fetal		300	HF	Flecainide + digoxin	4
31	AVRT	15	Ebstein	200	HF	Flecainide + digoxin	3
32	AVRT	3		300	Minor	Flecainide	1
33	AVRT	Fetal		220	HF	Flecainide	1
34	AVRT	12	ASD + VSD	260	HF	Flecainide + propranolol	7
35	AVRT	1		240	Minor	Flecainide	1
36	AVNRT	12		220	HF	Flecainide	1
37	AVRT	224		280	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	6
38	AVRT	21		201	HF	Flecainide	1
39	AVRT	24		300	HF	Flecainide + nadolol	5
40	AVRT	7		300	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	7
41	AVRT	1		280	Minor	Flecainide	1
42	AVRT	36		290	HF	Amiodarone + nadolol	15
43	AVRT	11		280	Minor	Flecainide + nadolol	7
44	AVRT	1		225	Minor	Flecainide	1
45	PJRT	Fetal		217	HF	Flecainide + nadolol	15

AVRT atrioventricular re-entry tachycardia, CV cardioversion, AVNRT atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia, PJRT paroxysmal junctional re-entry tachycardia, ASD atrial septal defect, CHD congenital heart diseases, D death, Ebstein Ebstein’s anomaly, HF heart failure, HR heart rates, minor minor symptoms, NCLV non-compacted left ventricular cardiomyopathy, shock cardiogenic shock, VSD ventricular septal defect

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