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Bifascicular block is characterized by right bundle branch block with left anterior fascicular block, left bundle branch block, or right bundle branch block with left posterior fascicular block on electrocardiography. Complete heart block could be the cause of syncope that is otherwise unexplained if bifascicular block is seen on ...
Widow maker is an alternative name for the anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery. [8] [2] The name widow maker may also apply to the left coronary artery [9] or severe occlusions to that artery. [10] [11] This term is used because the left main coronary and/or the left anterior descending supply blood to large areas of ...
Bigeminy is a cardiac arrhythmia in which there is a single ectopic beat, or irregular heartbeat, following each regular heartbeat.Most often this is due to ectopic beats occurring so frequently that there is one after each sinus beat, or normal heartbeat.
The ST segment starts from the J point (termination of QRS complex and the beginning of ST segment) and ends with the T wave.The ST segment is the plateau phase, in which the majority of the myocardial cells had gone through depolarization but not repolarization.
The mitral valve, so named because of its resemblance to a bishop's mitre, is the heart valve that prevents the backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium of the heart. It is composed of two leaflets, one anterior and one posterior, that close when the left ventricle contracts. [35]
Type 2 and 3 may lead to suspicion, but provocation testing is required for diagnosis. The ECGs in the right and left panels are from the same patient before (right panel, type 3) and after (left panel, type 1) administration of Ajmaline. Brugada syndrome is diagnosed by identifying characteristic patterns on an electrocardiogram. [14]
The pathophysiology of pulmonary heart disease (cor pulmonale) has always indicated that an increase in right ventricular afterload causes RV failure (pulmonary vasoconstriction, anatomic disruption/pulmonary vascular bed and increased blood viscosity are usually involved [1]), however most of the time, the right ventricle adjusts to an overload in chronic pressure.
English: The characteristic wave patterns of a typical right bundle branch block as seen in an ECG. Only the precordial lead V1 and V6 are shown. Only the precordial lead V1 and V6 are shown. Wide QRS complexes are present and there's T wave inversion in lead V1 which is normal in this condition.