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Traumatic heart block
Y Copperman1, S Low, S Laniado
1Dept. of Cardiology, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Penetrating chest wounds have only occasionally been reported as a cause of permanent atrioventricular block. A case is presented in which a nail, fired from a power operated device, passed through the chest, causing complete atrioventricular block and requiring permanent pacing.