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William F. Meehan, MD; Charles A. Bertrand, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(10):1701-1703.

Abstract
A 16-year-old boy developed ventricular tachycardia during the course of febrile upper-respiratory tract infection. The arrhythmia was treated with cardioversion, and the patient recovered. The positive etiologic feature identified was an echovirus 4, which may have produced a myocarditis that would acount for the arrhythmia.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, NY.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 12 Studio Arcade, Bronxville, NY 10708 (Dr. Meehan).

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