Ihor Gussak and Charles Antzelevitch (Eds)

2008

Genetics, Mechanisms,
Treatment, Prevention

She was about 35 years old when she first became my patient in 1975. She had suffered from bouts of a supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) as far back as she could remember. “In the early days,” she recalled, “when I was a kid, they would give me something in the emergency room that elevated my blood pressure and damn near tore my head off.