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Presentation of Case

A 55-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of second-degree atrioventricular block.

The patient had been considered well until the day of admission, when a scheduled transurethral resection of the prostate gland at another hospital was cancelled because of second-degree heart block with a ventricular rate of 41 beats per minute. He was transferred to this hospital.

The patient was a carpenter. He had a 10-pack-year history of cigarette smoking but had discontinued smoking 10 years before admission. He drank alcohol occasionally. He had a slightly elevated cholesterol level. He had learned of the scheduled surgical procedure three weeks . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Infiltrative Myocardial Diseases

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

Collagen Vascular Diseases

Infections

Lyme Disease

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Roger J. Hajjar's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

References

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Malik, I. (2002). JournalScan. Heart 88: 207-208 [Full Text]