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Neonatal lupus erythematosus syndrome: late detection of isolated heart block
D P McCarron1, D B Hellmann, T A Traill
1Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Department of Medicine (Division of Molecular and Clinical Rheumatology, Division of Cardiology), Baltimore, MD.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
Heart block in neonatal lupus erythematosus is typically complete and detected in utero or in the neonatal period. We describe a child diagnosed with incomplete heart block at 9 years of age whose mother was diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome and anti-Ro(SSA) 2 years after diagnosis of heart block in her child. This is the first case of late detection of incomplete heart block in a child felt to be causally related to the presence of anti-Ro(SSA) in the mother.