Complete heart block in Reiter's syndrome.
Severe cardiac manifestations are rare complications of Reiter's syndrome. The literature describes 11 cases of complete heart block. We report a case of complete atrioventricular heart block in a 38-year-old man with HLA-B27 positive Reiter's syndrome. Conduction returned to normal after institution of steroid treatment.
D000328:Adult; D016918:Arthritis, Reactive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006327:Heart Block / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use
D011241:Prednisone