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What Can You Tell Me About Left Branch Bundle Block?

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Posted on Wed, 26 Mar 2014
Question: What can you tell me about Left Branch Bundle Block LBBB
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Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (52 minutes later)
Brief Answer: To interpret in total clinical picture Detailed Answer: Dear friend, Welcome to Health Care Magic It is a particular pattern in EKG It may be the result of enlargement of the Left ventricular chamber / from a defect in the conduction system / at times a heart attack / very rarely, a normal variant / and so on…. The significance cannot be predicted by itself / it needs to be correlated with the total clinical picture One needs further investigations – like ECHOcardiography, enzyme studies and so on – depending on the clinical situation Take care Wishing all well God bless
Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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Follow up: Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (21 hours later)
What is a defeat in the conduction system is that the heart's pump Are you saying I may have had a heart attack. Could this condition precipitate a heart attack attack.
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Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (3 hours later)
Brief Answer: Nerves that conuct Detailed Answer: Hi It does not precipitate a heart attack It could be a sign of a previous heart attack Like every organ, the heart also has blood vessels and nerves for it to work properly. The nerves of the heart is called the conduction system - SA node, AV node, Bundle of His branching into right and left bundles and finally the Purkinje fibres... A defect in conduction is called block. Block of left bundle is called Left Bundle Brach Block = LBBB The pump is muscle Regards
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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What Can You Tell Me About Left Branch Bundle Block?

Brief Answer: To interpret in total clinical picture Detailed Answer: Dear friend, Welcome to Health Care Magic It is a particular pattern in EKG It may be the result of enlargement of the Left ventricular chamber / from a defect in the conduction system / at times a heart attack / very rarely, a normal variant / and so on…. The significance cannot be predicted by itself / it needs to be correlated with the total clinical picture One needs further investigations – like ECHOcardiography, enzyme studies and so on – depending on the clinical situation Take care Wishing all well God bless