RECURRENT NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS ASSOCIATED WITH EPISODES OF SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

The case of a 5-month-old baby with congenital heart disease and recur rent episodes of refractory supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is pres ented. Severe segmental necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) developed in t he patient after one prolonged episode of SVT that required a limited right hemicolectomy. Further episodes of SVT were associated with recu rrence of NEC requiring multiple laparotomies, The pathogenesis and th erapeutic implications of this process are discussed in view of the po tentially multiple pathological processes involved. Copyright (C) 1998 by W.B. Saunders Company.