Unusual presentation of supraventricular tachycardia degenerating into ventricular fibrillation during pregnancy: Aortocaval compression the probable culprit

Risk stratification for maternal atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia during pregnancy: Case report and literature review

“…The final review consisted of 12 articles. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 There were 629 initial articles and 478 articles after placing English language and human species filters. The primary search yielded 5 articles.…”

“… 2 , 3 , 5 , 6 , 7 The secondary search produced 7 articles. 4 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 The final articles are listed in Table 1 , with the patient from this case report entered under article 13. There were 24 total patients.…”

“…Three articles, aside from this case report, described patients who underwent catheter ablation after delivery. 2 , 12 , 13 Tawam and colleagues 2 reported on 38 women that included 13 (34%) women with onset of SVT during pregnancy, 11 (29%) women with pre-existing SVT that was exacerbated by pregnancy, and others with no change in SVT symptoms through pregnancy. Of the 38 women, 8 were diagnosed with AVNRT by electrophysiology studies performed in the nongravid state.…”

“…Prashar and colleagues 13 described a patient who presented in the 24th week of pregnancy with palpitations and lightheadedness for over 40 minutes and had a heart rate of 200 beats/min. She went into ventricular fibrillation before an ECG could be obtained.…”

“…There were 2 cases of atypical AVNRT. 6 , 13 The remaining, when specified, were typical AVNRT. There were no cases of incessant AVNRT.…”