Complete Atrioventricular Block

Ikenna Erinne, MD; Arjun K. Theertham, MD; Kataneh Maleki, MD; Chunguang Chen, MD; Mark Russo, MD; Abdul Hakeem, MD

JACC: Case Reports (May 2021)

Complete Atrioventricular Block

Ikenna Erinne, MD,
Arjun K. Theertham, MD,
Kataneh Maleki, MD,
Chunguang Chen, MD,
Mark Russo, MD,
Abdul Hakeem, MD

Affiliations

Ikenna Erinne, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Arjun K. Theertham, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Kataneh Maleki, MD: Department of Cardiology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Chunguang Chen, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Mark Russo, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Abdul Hakeem, MD: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Abdul Hakeem, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 125 Paterson Street, MEB 578B, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 5
pp. 772 – 777

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MitraClip (Abbott Vascular, Inc., Santa Clara, California) has emerged as a viable alternative for treatment of symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation. Conduction abnormalities are not a known complication of this procedure. We report a case of complete heart block without a ventricular escape rhythm immediately following MitraClip placement near the medial leaflets (A3-P3) in a patient with underlying trifascicular block. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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