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What Happens When You Have a Heart Block?

First-degree heart block is the mildest type and often requires no treatment. Third-degree heart block is the most severe and often needs a pacemaker to regulate the heartbeat. Many different causes ...
Medscape

BLOCK-HF: Replace RV Pacing With BiV in AV-Block Heart Failure

LOS ANGELES — Substituting biventricular (BiV) pacing for standard right ventricular pacing led to significant improvements in survival and hospitalization for heart-failure patients with ...
TCTMD

AV Block Common After Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement for TR

NEW YORK, NY—High-grade atrioventricular (AV) block occurs within 1 month for roughly one in seven patients who undergo transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), according to new results from ...
Medscape

Management of Patients With Drug-Induced Atrioventricular Block

Damirbek Osmonov, M.D; Izzet Erdinler, M.D; Kazim Serhan Ozcan, M.D; Servet Altay, M.D; Ceyhan Turkkan, M.D; Ersin Yildirim, M.D; Hakan Hasdemir, M.D; Ahmet Taha ...
TCTMD

Conduction-System Pacing Successful as First-line Option for AV Block: CSPACE

Patients with atrioventricular (AV) block who don’t have an indication for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do better when treated with conduction-system pacing versus right ventricular septal ...
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Nurse, 22, on uncovering the source of the chest pains she felt on duty

Jessika Seward, then 22, felt a jolt of pain in her chest while working an overnight shift as a cardiac nurse in April 2023. At first, she brushed it off. But the pangs continued for a half hour and a ...