Advanced atrioventricular block in a 39-year-old man with acute rheumatic fever

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11 I, 1998, Pages 2025-2028

  Barold, S Serge ^a,c   Sischy, David ^a   Punzi, John ^a   Kaplan, Edward L ^b   Chessin, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular block; Rheumatic fever

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; MYALGIA; PHARYNGITIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA, SINUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031724377     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01120.x     Document Type: Article

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