Atrial flutter in a newborn baby

Abstract

The prenatal cardiotocographic controls enable to detect disturbs of fetal cardiac rhythm that may cause a heart failure. This possible clinical situation may be a criteria for making a caesarean section. We report a newborn with 37 weeks of conceptual age, who was born by caesarean section due to a fetal tachyarrhythmia. The postnatal electrocardiogram provided the diagnosis of atrial flutter. This newborn did not do a hearth failure and the cardioversion was got by oral digital. This tachyarrhythmia is the 7% of child arrhythrnias and it is corrected by electric or pharmacological version, being the digital the elective drug.