This early case series highlights that paroxysmal tachycardia in children is likely underdiagnosed and more common than previously thought, aided by the increasing use of electrocardiography.
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May increase vigilance for pediatric paroxysmal tachycardia; leaves open whether incidence has truly risen or detection has improved.
The occurrence of paroxysmal tachycardia in infancy and childhood has been considered extremely rare. In recent years the number of such case reports has been definitely increasing. Willius and Amberg,¹in 1929, gathered twenty-five cases from the literature including a case of their own. In 1930, Essig²added ten cases to that number. Van Cleve³recently reported a case in an infant. The four reports in this paper bring the number of instances of paroxysmal tachycardia in children in the literature up to forty. This increasing number of case reports is due probably to the more general use of the electrocardiogram in the clinic and to the greater interest in cardiovascular diseases. We feel that paroxysmal tachycardia in children is more common than the dearth of the literature would lead us to believe. Many instances of this disorder have undoubtedly been overlooked because of the mildness of
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