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Chronic supraventricular tachycardias may lead to cardiac enlargement and depressed cardiac function[1–9]. That observation has resulted in the introduction of the term tachycardiomyopathy, indicating that deterioration in cardiac function can be caused by the arrhythmia per se and that normal heart function may be restored by cure of the arrhythmia.
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Wellens, H.J.J., Rodriquez, LM., Smeets, J.L.R.M., Cheriex, E.C., Pieters, F., den Dulk, K. (1992). Tachycardiomyopathy in Patients with Supraventricular Tachycardia. In: Kingma, J.H., van Hemel, N.M., Lie, K.I. (eds) Atrial Fibrillation, a Treatable Disease?. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1816-3_11
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