Left ventricular filling and left bundle branch block: an echocardiographic and radionuclide study

• Published in: Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux Vol. 85; no. 6; p. 871
• Main Authors: Duriez, P, Assoun, B, Bussy, E, de Bourayne, J, Monségu, J, Ollivier, J P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: France 01.06.1992
• Subjects: Aged; Bundle-Branch Block - diagnostic imaging; Bundle-Branch Block - physiopathology; Echocardiography, Doppler; Female; Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging; Heart Ventricles - physiopathology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Radionuclide Ventriculography; Stroke Volume; Ventricular Function, Left

Left bundle branch block changes the activation and haemodynamics of the left ventricle. In order to evaluate its consequences on left ventricular filling, the duration of the isovolumic relaxation period, the velocities and the integrals of the rapid and slow filling waves were recorded by Doppler...