Complete heart block in Reiter's syndrome.

Journal: Danish Medical Bulletin
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Abstract

Severe cardiac manifestations are rare complications of Reiter's syndrome. The literature describes 11 cases of complete heart block. We report a case of complete atrioventricular heart block in a 38-year-old man with HLA-B27 positive Reiter's syndrome. Conduction returned to normal after institution of steroid treatment.

Authors
N Thomsen, K Hørslev Petersen, E Simonsen