Population
2 patients with complete heart block of many years' duration, asymptomatic. One case is a 47-year-old woman.
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
many years
Authors
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May occur in long-term asymptomatic complete heart block; leaves open relevance to modern pacing thresholds.
This historical case series highlights that patients with complete heart block can remain asymptomatic for many years while exhibiting specific hemodynamic and structural cardiac adaptations.
J M Read (1930) studied this question.
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