Factors including male sex, baseline conduction disturbances and intraprocedural atrioventricular block were associated with increased risk for permanent pacemaker implantation in patients with severe ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Conduction abnormalities like complete heart block (CHB) and left bundle branch block (LBBB) remain common in today’s TAVI patients, with some facing pacemaker implantation or even ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have released a clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and treatment of ...

Some consider 2:1 AV block to be type II block, claiming that the PR interval doesn't lengthen. What they don't realize is that determining whether the PR interval lengthens requires at least 2 ...

Heart block (AV block) is a delay or interruption in the transmission of an impulse from the atria to the ventricles. There are different types of heart block: first-degree AV block, more correctly ...

DENVER, CO—The use of an implantable loop recorder (Reveal LINQ, Medtronic) identifies a high incidence of arrhythmic events at 12 months in patients who develop persistent left bundle branch block ...

A first-degree AV node block occurs when conduction through the AV node is slowed, thus delaying the time it takes for the action potential to travel from the SA node, through the AV node, and to the ...

The pathogenesis of congenital heart block (CHB) remains unclear. The occurrence rate of neonatal CHB is low, even in murine models of lupus erythematosus. The assessment of heart block in murine ...

Lyme disease is a tick-borne bacterial infection (mainly Borrelia burgdorferi) with endemic regions predominantly along the Canada–United States border. In 2016, 987 cases of Lyme disease were ...

To the Editor: The article by Dr. M. G. Criscitiello on "Therapy of Atrioventricular Block" implies that Mobitz Type II block may be benefited by atropine or isoproterenol (Isuprel). Type II block may ...