A Case of Intermittent Left Bundle Branch Block

An 82-year-old woman with uncontrolled hypertension and occasional exertional dyspnea was found to be in intermittent left bundle branch block (LBBB). Her laboratory results, echocardiogram, and ischemic workup were unremarkable. This case highlights that intermittent LBBB is not always associated w...

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Autores principales: Saad, Syed M, Polani, Faran S, LeLorier, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8232976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34189004
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15851
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description An 82-year-old woman with uncontrolled hypertension and occasional exertional dyspnea was found to be in intermittent left bundle branch block (LBBB). Her laboratory results, echocardiogram, and ischemic workup were unremarkable. This case highlights that intermittent LBBB is not always associated with coronary ischemia, vasospasm, blunt cardiac injury, drugs, and high catecholaminergic or inflammatory states. 
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spelling pubmed-82329762021-06-28 A Case of Intermittent Left Bundle Branch Block Saad, Syed M Polani, Faran S LeLorier, Paul Cureus Cardiology An 82-year-old woman with uncontrolled hypertension and occasional exertional dyspnea was found to be in intermittent left bundle branch block (LBBB). Her laboratory results, echocardiogram, and ischemic workup were unremarkable. This case highlights that intermittent LBBB is not always associated with coronary ischemia, vasospasm, blunt cardiac injury, drugs, and high catecholaminergic or inflammatory states.  Cureus 2021-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8232976/ /pubmed/34189004 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15851 Text en Copyright © 2021, Saad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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