Representative electrocardiogram recordings of the different degrees of heart block
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Cardiology
Atrioventricular block (AV block) is a type of heart block that occurs when the electrical signal traveling from the atria, or the upper chambers of the heart, to ventricles, or the lower chambers of the heart, is impaired. Normally, the sinoatrial node (SA node) produces an electrical signal to control the heart rate. The signal travels from the SA node to the ventricles through the atrioventricular node (AV node). In an AV block, this electrical signal is either delayed or completely blocked. When the signal is completely blocked, the ventricles produce their own electrical signal to control the heart rate. The heart rate produced by the ventricles is much slower than that produced by the SA node.[1]
Some AV blocks are benign, or normal, in certain people, such as in athletes or children. Other blocks are pathologic, or abnormal, and have several causes, including ischemia, infarction, fibrosis, and drugs.
Atrioventricularblock (AV block) is a type of heart block that occurs when the electrical signal traveling from the atria, or the upper chambers of the...
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estimated that less than 50% of patients with bifascicular block have high-degree atrioventricularblock, although the exact incidence is unknown. The European...
produces a permanent block Third-degree atrioventricularblock (AV block), a medical condition Block (permutation group theory) Block, in modular representation...
and stroke. Developing sinus arrest, sinus node exit block, sinus bradycardia, atrioventricularblock, and other types of abnormal rhythms are also common...
The atrioventricular node or AV node electrically connects the heart's atria and ventricles to coordinate beating in the top of the heart; it is part of...
sinoatrial node, spreads throughout the atrium, and passes through the atrioventricular node down into the bundle of His and into the Purkinje fibers, spreading...
(1889–1951), described and classified the two types of second-degree atrioventricularblock often called "Mobitz Type I" and "Mobitz Type II" Jacqueline Noonan...
system of the heart, it transmits the electrical impulses from the atrioventricular node (located between the atria and the ventricles) to the point of...
disorder in an 80-year-old female patient with complete intermittent atrioventricularblock. In coining the term, he referred his colleagues to the "Dictionnaire...
conductivity from the SA node to the atrioventricular node (AV node), or by atrioventricularblock (especially third degree AV block). Normally, the pacemaker cells...
(regularly irregular) pulse include pulsus bigeminus, second-degree atrioventricularblock. An example of irregular intermittent (irregularly irregular) pulse...
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abuse, pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, and advanced or complete atrioventricularblock. Numbers from Lepeschkin E in As the name suggests, Biphasic T waves...
node disease (SND) or sick sinus syndrome. Where the problem is atrioventricularblock (AVB) the pacemaker is required to detect (sense) the atrial beat...
branch block on the electrocardiogram: The heart rhythm must originate above the ventricles (i.e., sinoatrial node, atria or atrioventricular node) to...
ejection fraction, or those who present with heart failure, advanced atrioventricularblock, with sustained ventricular arrhythmias or with hemodynamic instability...
adversely impacts the heart's electrical conduction system, causing atrioventricularblock that often manifests as heart rhythms that alternate within minutes...
present, showing low voltage and conduction abnormalities like atrioventricularblock or sinus node dysfunction.[medical citation needed] On echocardiography...
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