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For the moment i do not need a p.maker / I pray to S.MAry and waht can i do to get better.................in the future

2006-10-09 04:31:52 · 1 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1 in Health General Health Care Other - General Health Care

My cardiologist told me to check this condisiton every year and will see ......
but i will like to improve the condition.......can we do something else than wait ?

2006-10-09 06:39:33 · update #1

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Incomplete bundle branch block sometimes indicates underlying heart disease. But, especially when it occurs on the right side (i.e., incomplete RBBB,) it often has no significance at all. So in general, incomplete bundle branch block should trigger a non-invasive search for underlying heart disease.

In patients who have dilated cardiomyopathy and either complete or incomplete bundle branch block, a new form of pacing – called cardiac resynchronization pacing or CRT – has now been shown to improve symptoms and to prolong life. CRT should now be strongly considered in any patient with heart failure and bundle branch block. Click here to read more about CRT.

As we have seen, bundle branch block causes the ventricles to beat sequentially (one after another) instead of simultaneously. This discoordination of the normal pattern of ventricular contraction diminishes the efficiency of the heart beat. In a person with a normal heart, the loss of efficiency is inconsequential. But in a person with dilated cardiomyopathy this loss of efficiency can be critical, and can contribute greatly to symptoms of heart failure. Resynchronization pacing restores much of this efficiency by pacing both the right and left ventricles simultaneously. In patients who have heart failure from dilated cardiomyopathy and bundle branch block, resynchronization pacing has become an important component to therapy.

2006-10-09 05:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by swomedicineman 4 · 0 0

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