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Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome presenting with steroid-induced bradycardia in a patient with acute rheumatic fever

Part of: Infectious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

Ali Orgun ,
Hazım A. Gursu  and
Ibrahim I. Cetin
Ali Orgun
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases, Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
Hazım A. Gursu*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases, Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
Ibrahim I. Cetin
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases, Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
*
Author for correspondence: A. H. Gursu, Associate Professor Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara Child Health and Diseases, Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, 06110 Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +90 505 561 87 99; Fax: +09 312 347 23 30; E-mail: hagursu@yahoo.com.tr
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Abstract

Steroids are used in the treatment of acute rheumatic fever with moderate-to-severe carditis. Corticosteroids have several cardiovascular side affects that are more common in adults than in children. Corticosteroid-related bradycardia is a rarely seen side effect. Children with bradycardia following oral corticosteroid use are rarely reported previously. We present a child who developed bradycardia after oral corticosteroid treatment and concurrent Wolff–Parkinson–White pattern.

Keywords

Acute rheumatic feverarrhythmiaechocardiography

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Brief Report
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 11 , November 2018 , pp. 1375 - 1377
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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