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[Congenital auriculo-ventricular block in the adult].

Abstract
In this work we report a consecutive series of ten patients having auriculoventricular block "presumed" congenital which is seen in adulthood between 1990 and 2001 to determine their clinical profile and forecast, and to deduct the therapeutic consequences. Our criteria of inclusion requires the existence of patients with a second or third degree heart block, who are less than 40 years old at the time of diagnosis, which is not totally regressive in the effort test and the atropine injection, and whose congenital origin was strongly suspected because of the notion of slow pulse during their youth and the absence of acquired affect which enables us to explain this disease. The population contains ten patients whose average age in hospitalization is 23 years old with the range of 11 to 39, while the average age of the discovery of the disease was 20 years old with the range of 8 to 34. Our patients were referred to us because of cardiac symptoms such as syncope or an equivalent, effort intolerance, asthenia, thoracic pain (like angina), or palpitations. The clinical exam, the electrocardiogram, and additional exams (holter, effort test, echocardiography, electrophysiological investigation) allowed us to retain six indications for the definitive cardiac stimulation, associating to different degrees the existence of worrying symptoms such as a syncope, a congenital heart disorder, a low heart frequency, the association in a sinus dysfunction. Short-term and long-term evolution is favorable for patients of the stimulated group as well as the non-stimulated group.
AuthorsYoussef Ben Ameur, Sami Braham, Mohamed Hmem, Mouna Terras, Kais Battikh, Salma Longo, Lilia Bouraoui, Sondos Kraiem, Mohamed Lotfi Slimane
JournalLa Tunisie medicale (Tunis Med) Vol. 80 Issue 9 Pg. 556-61 (Sep 2002) ISSN: 0041-4131 [Print] Tunisia
Vernacular TitleLe bloc auriculo-ventriculaire congenital en milieu adulte.
PMID12632770 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age of Onset
  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Block (complications, congenital, pathology)
  • Heart Failure
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prognosis
  • Syncope

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