Rheumatic severe mitral stenosis with complete heart block.
Rheumatic fever presenting with complete heart block is very rare and usually transient. We describe a child with chronic severe rheumatic mitral stenosis with persistent complete heart block with interesting echocardiographic findings.
Department of Cardiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, 226014, India.
Pravin K
PK
Goel
Nagaraja
N
Moorthy
Tanuj
T
Bhatia
D000293:Adolescent; D054537:Atrioventricular Block / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis