International Symposium: Fifty Years after IGY
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In 1943 an otherwise healthy girl aged 3 developed measles encephalitis with an accompanying mild left hemiparesis. At this time a persistent tachycardia of 140 beats per minute was noted, and she was referred to Sir John Parkinson at the National Heart Hospital. He made a diagnosis of atrial tachycardia. A trial of digoxin and quinidine proved ineffective, but she remained symptomatically well...
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عنوان ژورنال: TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1884-7080,1342-3363
DOI: 10.5363/tits.14.5_53