Complete heart block in a patient with systemic sclerosis.
We describe a patient with diffuse systemic sclerosis and presyncopal episodes where the electrocardiogram revealed complete atrioventricular heart block associated with left posterior and right heart bundle block. The patient underwent implantation of a permanent pacemaker.
Moyssakis
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Department of Cardiology, Laiko Hospital of Athens, 17 Agiou Thomas St. Goudi, 15727, Athens, Greece. jimpapdoc@yahoo.com
Papadopoulos
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Tzioufas
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D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006327:Heart Block / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011859:Radiography; D045743:Scleroderma, Diffuse / Q000150:complications*