congenital heart block

Etiology

• neonatal lupus
• structural heart disease

Epidemiology

• rare
• 1 in 22,000 live births

Radiology

• echocardiogram

Complications

• high mortality

Management

• surgical correction of structural heart defect
• cardiac pacemaker as indicated

More general terms

• heart block
• congenital heart disease; congenital cyanotic heart disease