Complete heart block after percutaneous mitral valvotomy with Inoue balloon

Evora, P.R.; Finzi, L.P.; Haddad, J.; Secches, A.L.; Ribeiro, P.J.; Vicente, W.V.

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 66(3): 149-152

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0066-782X
PMID: 8762693
Document Number: 468527
We report a permanent complete heart block, in a 27 year-old female patient, developed during mitral percutaneous valvotomy using a single inflation of the Inoue balloon catheter. After one month, even using corticoids, a Mobitz II second-degree atrioventricular block persisted, the patient became symptomatic to moderate efforts and a cardiac pacemaker was implanted.

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