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Persistent Junctional Reciprocating Tachycardia

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Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Young

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Persistent junctional reciprocating tachycardia PJRT is a rare reentrant supraventricular tachycardia comprising less than 1 % of supraventricular tachycardias in children.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, University of Minnesota, 225 North Smith Ave., Ste 504, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, USA

    Parvin Dorostkar M.D., M.S., M.B.A.

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Dorostkar, P. (2015). Persistent Junctional Reciprocating 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_6

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