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First degree AV block echocardiography
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Echocardiography is useful for finding structural heart disease in patients with First-degree AV block while symptoms suspected to be cardiac in origin including syncope, presyncope, lightheadedness.
Echocardiography
Echocardiography
Echocardiography is useful for finding structural heart disease in patients with First-degree AV block while symptoms suspected to be cardiac in origin including:[1]
- Echocardiography can identify different cardiac structural abnormalities leading to bradycardia or conduction disturbance such as:[2]
- Cardiomyopathy
- Valvular heart disease
- Congenital anomalies
- Tumors
- Infections
- Infiltrative processes
- Immunologically mediated conditions,
- Great vessels abnormalities
- Pericardium
- Endocarditis with or without perivalvular complications
- Aortic dissection
- Unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm
References
References
- ↑ Anguera, Ignasi; Miro, Jose M.; Evangelista, Artur; Cabell, Christopher H.; San Roman, Jose Alberto; Vilacosta, Isidre; Almirante, Benito; Ripoll, Tomas; Fariñas, M. Carmen; Anguita, Manuel; Navas, Enrique; Gonzalez-Juanatey, Carlos; Garcia-Bolao, Ignacio; Muñoz, Patricia; de Alarcon, Aristides; Sarria, Cristina; Rufi, Gabriel; Miralles, Francisco; Pare, Carles; Fowler, Vance G.; Mestres, Carlos A.; de Lazzari, Elisa; Guma, Joan R.; Moreno, Asunción; Corey, G. Ralph (2006). “Periannular Complications in Infective Endocarditis Involving Native Aortic Valves”. The American Journal of Cardiology. 98 (9): 1254–1260. doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.06.016. ISSN 0002-9149.
- ↑ “ACCF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR 2011 Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography”. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 24 (3): 229–267. 2011. doi:10.1016/j.echo.2010.12.008. ISSN 0894-7317.
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sara Zand, M.D.[2] Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [3]