Recurrent syncope due to complete atrioventricular block, a rare presenting symptom of otherwise silent coronary artery disease: Successful treatment by PTCA

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 216-218

  Kovac, Jan D ^a   Murgatroyd, Francis D ^a   Skehan, J Douglas ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AV block; Coronary angioplasty; Right coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STENT; SYNCOPE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; STENTS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0030881469     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199710)42:2<216::AID-CCD29>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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