PMID- 2442731
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19870930
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 0172-0643 (Print)
IS  - 0172-0643 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 2
DP  - 1987
TI  - Cardiac arrhythmias in healthy children revealed by 24-hour ambulatory ECG 
      monitoring.
PG  - 103-8
AB  - Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring was performed on 360 healthy children, 
      from newborn infants to junior high school students. They were divided into five 
      groups by age: group A, 63 newborn infants on the first day of life; group B, 50 
      infants aged 1-11 months; group C, 53 kindergarten pupils aged 4-6 years; group 
      D, 97 primary school pupils aged 9-12 years; and group E, 97 junior high school 
      students aged 13-15 years. The maximal and minimal heart rates were significantly 
      greater in infants than in older children. Sinus arrhythmia was recorded in every 
      child. One boy in group E had an episode of sinus arrest for three seconds 
      without any symptoms. First-degree and Wenckebach type second-degree 
      atrioventricular blocks were not detected in group A and group B, but were most 
      frequent in group E, especially during sleep. Supraventricular premature 
      contractions (SVPCs) were the most common type of arrhythmia detected in this 
      study. More than half of the children had at least one SVPC per 24-h monitoring 
      period, and there were many children with frequent SVPCs in group E. The 
      incidence of ventricular premature contractions (VPCs) in children of groups A 
      and E was rather higher than in the other groups. Ventricular tachycardia was not 
      recorded in any child except one newborn infant who had a couplet of VPCs without 
      symptoms. Each group had different types and incidences of arrhythmias. There was 
      a rising incidence of arrhythmias with advancing age, except in the neonatal 
      period.
FAU - Nagashima, M
AU  - Nagashima M
FAU - Matsushima, M
AU  - Matsushima M
FAU - Ogawa, A
AU  - Ogawa A
FAU - Ohsuga, A
AU  - Ohsuga A
FAU - Kaneko, T
AU  - Kaneko T
FAU - Yazaki, T
AU  - Yazaki T
FAU - Okajima, M
AU  - Okajima M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Pediatr Cardiol
JT  - Pediatric cardiology
JID - 8003849
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Arrhythmia, Sinus/diagnosis
MH  - Arrhythmias, Cardiac/*diagnosis
MH  - Cardiac Complexes, Premature/diagnosis
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Electrocardiography
MH  - Heart Block/diagnosis
MH  - Heart Rate
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - *Monitoring, Physiologic
EDAT- 1987/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1987/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1987/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1987/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/BF02079464 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pediatr Cardiol. 1987;8(2):103-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02079464.