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COMPLETE HEART BLOCK IN PREGNANCY TREATED WITH AN INTERNAL CARDIAC PACEMAKER
Author(s) -
Ginns H. M.,
Hollinrake K.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1970.tb03596.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart block , adams–stokes syndrome , cardiac pacemaker , pregnancy , cardiology , permanent pacemaker , block (permutation group theory) , electrocardiography , geometry , mathematics , biology , genetics
Summary A case of congenital heart block complicated by Adams‐Stokes attacks treated by the insertion of a permanent fixed‐rate transvenous cardiac pacemaker is reported. No special difficulties were encountered during pregnancy, labour or puerperium except that the site of implantation of the pacemaker battery required revision. With the development of cardiac pacing there is little centra‐indication to pregnancy in such cases. The prognosis is worse in cases of acquired rather than congenital complete heart block.