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Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardia

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Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Young

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Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is the most common tachyarrhythmia in children, occurring in as many as 1–3 in 2,000 children. Of these, 90 % involve a reentrant circuit (Chap. 3) including atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia (AVRT), AV node reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT, Chap. 5), or persistent junctional reciprocal tachycardia (Chap. 6). The majority (50–60 %) of reentrant SVT presents in the first year of life, but may exhibit spontaneous resolution. When documented SVT is occurs in infants younger than 6 months of age 15–40 % will not have a recurrence of SVT beyond their first year of life. As children age the relative proportion of those with AV reentrant tachycardia diminishes from 85 % in children less than 1 year to 82 % in children between 1 and 5 years and 56 % between 6 and 10 years of age. As children pass into the adolescent years, AVNRT becomes slightly more common than AVRT. Finally, AVRT is more common in males.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, 3006 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 690, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, USA

    Vincent C. Thomas M.D., M.H.A.

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Nicholas Von Bergen M.D.

  3. Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Ian H. Law B.S.E., M.D.

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Thomas, V.C., Von Bergen, N., Law, I.H. (2015). Atrioventricular Reentry Tachycardia. In: Dick, II, M. (eds) Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Young. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2739-5_4

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