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Original Articles: Pediatric Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115

(Email: frank.cecchin@cardio.chboston.org).

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Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is a serious postoperative arrhythmia that occurs in children undergoing palliative or corrective operations for congenital heart disease. A commonly used treatment algorithm for JET was first described by Walsh and colleagues [1] that uses a tiered approach in which general measures are used first, such as AV-synchrony and hypothermia, followed by a combined hypothermic and pharmacologic intervention.

Kovacikova and colleagues [2] evaluated a protocol in which pharmacologic methods were used first. This is a descriptive study in which the authors prospectively treated JET systematically . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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