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Congenital heart block and subsequent connective tissue disorder in adolescence
O Hubscher1, D Carrillo, M Reichlin
1Department of Internal Medicine, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas (CEMIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lupus
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A young girl born to a mother with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) had congenital heart block and developed symptoms of a connective tissue disorder at the age of 13 y. When first seen at the age of 15 y she was found to have an unclassified connective tissue disorder and to be seropositive for anti Ro/SSA and U1 RNP. This constellation of clinical/serological features has not been described among the reported handful of patients with congenital heart block and subsequent development of a connective tissue disorder.