Open AccessComplete Heart Block in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Author(s) -
Rajaram R Desai,
Amit K Sakaria,
Utkarsh Goel,
Akshay Navalkishor Lakhotia,
Kuldeep Shah
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
heart india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2321-6638
pISSN - 2321-449X
DOI - 10.4103/2321-449x.134588
Subject(s) - medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , heart block , arthritis , heart disease , disease , joint disease , cardiology , dermatology , pathology , electrocardiography , alternative medicine , osteoarthritis
The extra-articular manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have drawn as much interest as the disease itself and thus leading to it being labeled as a chronic inflammatory joint disease with a multisystem involvement. Of the various known extra-articular manifestations, one of the rare complications is the conduction abnormalities of the heart that is seen in the active disease. Here, we are reporting a case of a female patient with RA, who to begin with had conduction defects secondary to RA which later progressed to a complete heart block, as its sequelae