CONGENITAL HEART-BLOCK: REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE; REPORT OF A CASE WITH INCOMPLETE HETEROTAXY; THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN DEXTROCARDIA

True congenital heart-block is rare. In 1920, Carter and Howland¹ reviewed the seven reasonably established cases previously reported and added one of their own. In 1921, White, Eustis and Kerr² added two more from the literature reported since the publication of Carter and Howland's review, and gave detailed accounts of two cases of theirs, one of which was undoubtedly congenital. In recording another case, Romberg and White³ (1924) mentioned the cases of Bravo y Frias⁴ (1922) and of Barbier, Lebée and Mouquin⁵ (1922). Fourteen other cases have been recorded in the literature, one each by Meyer⁶ (1923), Nobécourt⁷ (1924), Wilson and Grant⁸ (1925), McIntosh⁹ (1927), Lukin and Frey¹⁰ (1927), Davis¹¹ (1927), Gibson¹² (1927), Aldrich¹³ (1927), Shapiro¹⁴ (1927), Haverschmidt¹⁵ (1928), Nisse¹⁶ (1928), and Perotti¹⁷ (1928), and two by Fleming and Stevenson¹⁸ (1928). These