Transient severe conduction disturbances associated with ankylosing spondylitis.
Kuniyasu IkeokaNagahiro NishikawaMasayuki SakakibaraKeisuke KawamotoShiro HoshidaPublished in: Journal of arrhythmia (2019)
A 46-year-old man presented with advanced and complete atrioventricular block. He was diagnosed with human leukocyte antigen-B27-positive ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for AS. The severe atrioventricular block spontaneously improved and resolved after 3 months of therapy. Sequential cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated transient myocardial high-intensity signals in the basal septum close to the membranous portion of the septum. A pacemaker was not needed because of the reversible atrioventricular block.
Keyphrases
- ankylosing spondylitis
- high intensity
- magnetic resonance imaging
- disease activity
- rheumatoid arthritis
- anti inflammatory drugs
- left ventricular
- endothelial cells
- catheter ablation
- early onset
- resistance training
- cerebral ischemia
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- computed tomography
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- stem cells
- heart failure
- atrial fibrillation
- contrast enhanced
- peripheral blood
- drug induced
- mesenchymal stem cells
- brain injury
- magnetic resonance
- bone marrow
- blood brain barrier
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- smoking cessation