Complete Heart Block: A Case Report and Review of a Rare Manifestation of COVID-19

Abstract

Covid19 is still one of the major public health problems of all countries nowadays. The most common cardiac manifestations reported till now are acute coronary syndrome, myocarditis, and arrhythmia. The prevalenceof COVID-19 induced arrhythmias is different in recent reports and varies from benign sinus tachycardia tomore ominous cases of severe bradycardia or even malignant ventricular arrhythmias. Here in, we describea case of complete heart block in severe covid-19 pneumonia and review all recent relevant case reportspublished to date in order to understand the probable mechanisms and contributing factors of this rarecomplication of the disease.

Keywords

• covid-19
• pneumonia
• complete heart block