Complete heart block due to diphtheritic myocarditis in the present era

Diphtheria continues to be reported from many parts of the world. Complete heart block is rare but often fatal complication of diphtheric myocarditis. We report six children with diphtheric myocarditis who presented with complete heart block. Three patients survived, one with persistent complete hea...

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Autores principales: Varghese, Mithun J, Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian, Kothari, Shyam S, Parashar, Akhil, Juneja, Rajnish, Saxena, Anita
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23626433
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.107231
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author Varghese, Mithun J
Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian
Kothari, Shyam S
Parashar, Akhil
Juneja, Rajnish
Saxena, Anita
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description Diphtheria continues to be reported from many parts of the world. Complete heart block is rare but often fatal complication of diphtheric myocarditis. We report six children with diphtheric myocarditis who presented with complete heart block. Three patients survived, one with persistent complete heart block. Aggressive supportive management including transvenous pacing may result in complete recovery in a significant number of children with diphtheric myocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-36342442013-04-26 Complete heart block due to diphtheritic myocarditis in the present era Varghese, Mithun J Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian Kothari, Shyam S Parashar, Akhil Juneja, Rajnish Saxena, Anita Ann Pediatr Cardiol Brief Communication Diphtheria continues to be reported from many parts of the world. Complete heart block is rare but often fatal complication of diphtheric myocarditis. We report six children with diphtheric myocarditis who presented with complete heart block. Three patients survived, one with persistent complete heart block. Aggressive supportive management including transvenous pacing may result in complete recovery in a significant number of children with diphtheric myocarditis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3634244/ /pubmed/23626433 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.107231 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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