Complete Heart Block Due to High Vagal Tone in Pregnancy

Ella Maria Cockburn¹, Jessica Yao^{1

2}, Robert Anderson^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Cardiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Case Reports

Ella Maria Cockburn et al. CJC Open. 2025.

. 2025 Jun 9;7(9):1263-1265.

doi: 10.1016/j.cjco.2025.06.001. eCollection 2025 Sep.

Ella Maria Cockburn¹, Jessica Yao^{1

2}, Robert Anderson^{1

2}

¹ Department of Cardiology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Cardiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: atrioventricular block; complete heart block; pregnancy; vagal tone.

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