title: Complete heart block in a patient with systemic sclerosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Laiko Hospital of Athens, 17 Agiou Thomas St. Goudi, 15727, Athens, Greece. jimpapdoc@yahoo.com
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Moyssakis
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Tzioufas
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Votteas
mesh_terms: 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*