TY - JOUR
T1 - A boy with fatigue and heart block
T2 - What's the mechanism?
AU - Phillips, Tarin C.
AU - Kisling, Adam J.
AU - Needleman, Matthew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - When the atrioventricular node is damaged, accessory pathways can perform primary atrioventricular conduction but may spontaneously degrade during childhood. After surgical atrial septal defect repair during infancy, an adolescent male presented with fatigue due to iatrogenic complete atrioventricular node block with a degrading antegrade accessory pathway resulting in symptomatic bradyarrhythmia.
AB - When the atrioventricular node is damaged, accessory pathways can perform primary atrioventricular conduction but may spontaneously degrade during childhood. After surgical atrial septal defect repair during infancy, an adolescent male presented with fatigue due to iatrogenic complete atrioventricular node block with a degrading antegrade accessory pathway resulting in symptomatic bradyarrhythmia.
KW - accessory pathway
KW - complete heart block
KW - third-degree AV block
KW - Wolff-Parkinson-White
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192098148&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1047951124024995
DO - 10.1017/S1047951124024995
M3 - Article
C2 - 38682551
AN - SCOPUS:85192098148
SN - 1047-9511
JO - Cardiology in the Young
JF - Cardiology in the Young
ER -