title: Complete heart block in an adult with systemic lupus erythematosus.
abstract: Report of a case of complete heart block in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The cardiac disturbance presented as repeated syncopal episodes and normal cardiac clinical and electrocardiographic examination between these episodes. Circulating anti-U1RNP antibodies were detected and tests for anti-SSA/Ro, anti-SSB/La and antiphospholipid antibodies were negative. Evidence of myocarditis was not found. The diagnosis was just established when the patient developed a syncopal episode during hospitalization. Only one SLE case with a similar clinical course has been reported previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crespo
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sobrino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006327:Heart Block / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology