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SUBMITTER: Tosoni A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693590 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Italian journal of pediatrics 20171117 1
<h4>Background</h4>Propranolol has become the first-line treatment for complicated Infantile Hemangioma (IH), showing so far a good risk-benefit profile.<h4>Case presentation</h4>We report the case of a toddler, on propranolol, who suffered cardiac arrest during an acute viral infection. She had a neurally-mediated syncope that progressed to asystole, probably because of concurrent factors as dehydration, beta-blocking and probably individual susceptibility to vaso-vagal phenomena. In fact a sig ...[more]