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(Chest. 1973;64:520-523.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Sick Sinus Syndrome in a Patient with Familial PR Prolongation

Miguel Gambetta M.D.1; James Weese 1; Mark Ginsburg M.D.1; and Daniel Shapiro M.D.1

1 Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago

A young woman with the characteristic features of the "sick sinus syndrome" and first degree A-V block of unknown etiology is presented. A prolonged PR interval with no evidence of sinus node dysfunction was found through four generations of her family. It is postulated that the abnormalities of impulse formation and conduction of this patient, as the prolonged A-V conduction of her family, could he interrelated and of familial origin.




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