Complete atrioventricular block after radiation therapy

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Published: Dec 31, 1987
Issue: Vol. 18 No. 4 (1987)
Section Case Report

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  Jairo Sánchez Residente de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario del Valle "Evaristo García", Cali, Colombia
  Martín B. Wartenberg Profesor Auxiliar, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Abstract

One case of a patient with a diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma stage IV-B who received radiation therapy (4000 rads) to the upper mantle developed 10 years later complete AV block with several syncopal episodes.

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Jairo Sánchez, Residente de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario del Valle "Evaristo García", Cali, Colombia

Residente de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario del Valle "Evaristo García", Cali, Colombia

Martín B. Wartenberg, Profesor Auxiliar, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Profesor Auxiliar, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

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Sánchez, J., & Wartenberg, M. B. (1987). Complete atrioventricular block after radiation therapy. Colombia Medica, 18(4), 187–190. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v18i4.6186
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