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Progressive systemic sclerosis can lead to cardiac involvement with complete heart block, which was successfully managed with an implanted pacemaker.
Highlights the potential for complete heart block in progressive systemic sclerosis and its successful management with a pacemaker.
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Alerts clinicians to possible conduction block in systemic sclerosis; hypothesis-generating for pacemaker management in this population.
A case of progressive systemic sclerosis is reported. The patient presented with chest pain and an abnormal chest radiograph. Later developments included cardiac involvement with complete heart block. The heart block was successfully managed with an implanted pacemaker.
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B. J. Summerfield (1975) studied this question. Progressive systemic sclerosis can lead to cardiac involvement with complete heart block, which was successfully managed with an implanted pacemaker.
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