Complete heart block in a patient with systemic sclerosis

Clin Rheumatol. 2006 Jul;25(4):551-2. doi: 10.1007/s10067-005-0068-2. Epub 2005 Nov 1.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Block / complications*
  • Heart Block / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Block / therapy
  • Humans
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
  • Radiography
  • Scleroderma, Diffuse / complications*