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Dear Dr, Please Guide Whether Long Standing Diabetes And Hypertension
Question: Dear Dr,
Please guide whether long standing Diabetes and Hypertension can lead to conduction defects and how can we relate this medical conditions on ECG and 2d echo. Kindly provide us the peculiar findings to be viewed on these investigations to correlate the conduction defect due to Diabetes or Hypertension
Please guide whether long standing Diabetes and Hypertension can lead to conduction defects and how can we relate this medical conditions on ECG and 2d echo. Kindly provide us the peculiar findings to be viewed on these investigations to correlate the conduction defect due to Diabetes or Hypertension
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
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Diabetes and hypertension can affect heart indirectly in many ways including conduction defects like lbbb and rbbb. Hypertension can cause increased thickening of heart muscles leading to increased qrs complex voltage on ecg. Diabetes can cause silent ischemic attack leading to stt changes on ecg.
On echo we can see increased thickening of heart muscles, diabetes can cause leakage in heart valves, also some patients develop cardiomyopathy.
Conduction defect on echo causes jerky septal movement and on ecg there can be rbbb or lbbb or intraventricular conduction defects.
Hope to have been helpful.
Kind regards
Please refer to detailed answer below
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Diabetes and hypertension can affect heart indirectly in many ways including conduction defects like lbbb and rbbb. Hypertension can cause increased thickening of heart muscles leading to increased qrs complex voltage on ecg. Diabetes can cause silent ischemic attack leading to stt changes on ecg.
On echo we can see increased thickening of heart muscles, diabetes can cause leakage in heart valves, also some patients develop cardiomyopathy.
Conduction defect on echo causes jerky septal movement and on ecg there can be rbbb or lbbb or intraventricular conduction defects.
Hope to have been helpful.
Kind regards
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