title: Complete heart block in ankylosing spondylitis.
abstract: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic rheumatic disease of young men that affects mainly the axial skeleton and is associated with HLA-B27 in 90% of the cases. Incidence of cardiovascular involvement in AS ranges between 10%-30%; conduction disturbances have been described in 1%-9% of the patients with AS. The majority of the series show a relationship with longstanding disease. To our knowledge, this is the first report of complete heart block in early AS.
authors.affiliation: Universidad del Quindío, Colombia.
authors.forename: Juan Pablo
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Restrepo
authors.forename: María Del Pilar
authors.initials: Mdel P
authors.lastname: Molina
mesh_terms: D006327:Heart Block / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult