Bundle branch blocks

Ventricular Conduction Disturbances: Bundle Branch Blocks and Related Abnormalities

54 Recall that in the normal process of ventricular activation the electrical stimulus reaches the ventricles from the atria by way of the atrioventricular (AV) node and His-Purkinje system (see Chapters 1 and 4). The first part of the ventricles to be stimulated (depolarized) is the left side of the ventricular septum. Soon after, the depolarization spreads to the main mass of the left and rig...

Atrial fibrillation, atrioventricular blocks and bundle branch blocks in hemodialysis patients.

Atrial fibrillation is one of the most frequent arrhythmias diagnosed in clinical practice and it is also relatively common in dialysis patients. Atrioventricular and intraventricular conduction disturbances are less investigated in hemodialysis patients and data about their prevalence are insufficient. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of atrial fibrillation, atrioven...

His Bundle electrogram in bundle-branch block.

SUMMARY Because a great majority of patients with chronic complete heart block have bilateral bundle-branch lesions, it becomes important to recognize earlier degrees of bilateral bundle-branch block. The H-V interval in the His bundle electrogram during unilateral bundle-branch block reflects the conduction primarily through the contralateral bundle branch, and thus the His bundle electrogram ...

Incomplete Bundle Branch Block.

Lewis (1925) stated that delay in the passage of the impulse down a bundle branch could alter materially the form of the electrocardiogram. Wilson (1940) defined incomplete bundle branch block as due to a conduction defect that merely retards the passage of the impulse through one of the main bundle branches, and stated that it gives rise to electrocardiograms which are " transitional, both as ...

Bilateral bundle branch block.