[Atrial standstill and rheumatic mitral valvulopathy].
Atrial standstill is a very rare form of bradyarrhythmia and consists of a transitory or permanent loss of the electrical and mechanical activity of the atria. We report a series of 8 patients, all of them with rheumatic valve disease (5 of them with a prosthetic valve) with symptomatic bradyarrhythmia secondary to atrial standstill, requiring an implantable pacemaker.
Moríñigo
J L
JL
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca.
Sánchez
P L
PL
Arribas
A
A
Ledesma
C
C
Martín
F
F
Martín Luengo
C
C
D000368:Aged; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy