Rheumatic Carditis with Complete Heart Block
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211 Volume XI, no. 2 : May 2010 progressing from high-level AV block through second-degree to first-degree heart block before complete resolution.2 The AV node is most commonly involved, but any level of the conduction system can be affected. Clinical heart failure is observed in approximately 10% of patients, and dilated cardiomyopathy can be a long-term consequence of untreated Lyme carditis....
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1929
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591572902200529