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Late high degree atrioventricular block after percutaneous closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2009

Sergey Yalonetsky
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology & GUCH Service, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Abraham Lorber*
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology & GUCH Service, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
*
Correspondence to: Dr Abraham Lorber, Pediatric Cardiology & GUCH Service, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha’Aliya Street, Haifa 35254, Israel. Tel: 972-4-8542757; Fax: 972-4-8542175; E-mail: a_lorber@rambam.health.gov.il

Abstract

Atrioventricular block is an important complication after percutaneous closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects. In the majority of cases, it appears in early or in the midterm of closure. We present a patient who developed symptomatic Mobitz 2 second-degree atrioventricular block 3 years following percutaneous closure of such a defect.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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