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Heart Block
By Dorothy Elinor StonelyThe Gale Group Inc., Gale.. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2002more »
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About heart block
Your heart is responsible for delivering oxygen to your body through your bloodstream. When your heart beats too slowly, it can't do this as efficiently. This can lead to symptoms such as fainting and black-outs.
Heart block is more common in older people and may be the result of age and a combination of factors listed above. Heart block can occur in people with heart attacks. When heart attacks cause heart block, it often goes away on its own.
A heart block does not mean that the heart stops beating altogether - other 'back-up' systems can take over. However, it can result in an abnormally slow heartbeat (bradycardia), which deprives the body's organs and tissue of oxygen.
How Is Heart Block Diagnosed?
Heart block may be diagnosed as part of a routine doctor's visit or during an emergency situation. (Third-degree heart block often is an emergency.) ...
Heart block is a disruption in the relay of electrical signals that control activity of the heart muscle.
What is going on in the body?
Complete heart block, also referred to as third-degree heart block, or third-degree atrioventricular (AV) block, is a disorder of the cardiac conduction system where there is no conduction through the AV node.
In complete heart block no atrial impulses conduct to ventricular contraction. Spontaneous escape rhythms either from the ventricles maintain life in the person, but symptoms such as syncope (brief loss of consciousness) are usually seen.
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Heart Block
Topic Overview
Heart block refers to an abnormality in the way electricity passes through the normal electrical pathways of the heart.
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Heart block: A block in the conduction of the normal electrical impulses in the heart.
Heart block occurs when the electrical signals from the sinoatrial node are too slow. A heart block does not mean that blood is being blocked from the heart.
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Heart block is a general term for disorders of the electrical conduction system in the heart.
Heart block is a term for a delay or interruption in the heart's conduction system, causing the electrical impulses to travel too slowly or to be stopped.
Heart block - In this condition, signals from the sinus node either are blocked completely, or are delayed significantly, as they pass through the AV node to the ventricles.
Less often, a pacemaker is used to treat the following conditions: ...
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First degree heart block. In the mildest form of heart block, all electrical signals from the atria pass through the AV node more slowly than normal.
Second degree heart block.
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Examples include sinus node dysfunction and heart block.
Sinus node dysfunction. A slow heart rhythm due to an abnormal SA (sinus) node. Significant sinus node dysfunction that causes symptoms is treated with a pacemaker.
Heart block.
For example, in patients who have heart block, a medication such as Nortriptyline, which has been shown to be a very effective treatment for poststroke depression, can be dangerous.
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Heart block. Heart block is often caused by a congenital heart defect, although it can also be result from disease or injury. Heart block happens when electrical impulses can't make their way from the upper to lower chambers of the heart.
Heart block, also called atrioventricular (AV) block, is a condition in which the electric conduction of nerve impulses to muscles in the heart is slowed or interrupted.
Heart block
'Heart block' is when the atrioventricular node, the conducting system or both fail to communicate with the ventricles. The most common symptom of this serious disorder is dizziness or loss of consciousness.
Fetal heart block (where there is a block of electrical flow within the heart muscle causing an altered heart rhythm)
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This is called heart block. (The term heart block refers only a 'block' in he electrical system within the heart. It does not refer to blockages in the coronary arteries.) All the above conditions cause the heart to pump too slowly.
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Heart block: A delay or complete block of the electrical impulse as it travels from the sinus node to the ventricles. The level of the block or delay may occur in the AV node or HIS-Purkinje system. The heartbeat may be irregular and slow.
An important part of this disease is an abnormality of heart rhythm known as heart block. Generalized muscle weakness involving face, swallowing and limbs are noted by some patients. A mild hearing problem and unsteadiness may be present.
The symptoms—skin rash, low blood cell counts—are likewise temporary. However, neonatal lupus does have the potential to cause permanent damage to the baby’s heart (called heart block).
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Ablation of the AV junction leads to complete heart block. Treatment for this condition requires a permanent pacemaker.
Expectations (prognosis): ...
In some people, atrial fibrillation hides other pre-existing conditions such as sick sinus syndrome or heart block, and these conditions may surface after treatment of atrial fibrillation. If you have these conditions, you may need a pacemaker.
For example, heart rhythm disorders such as complete heart block typically require placement of a permanent pacemaker, whereas ventricular tachycardia generally requires internal cardiac defibrillator (ICD) placement.
Or a very slow heart rate caused by heart block or pacemaker failure may cause fainting.
Some heart attacks immediately damage the pumping muscle and cause fainting.
Abnormal heart valves can cause drops in blood pressure that lead to fainting.
If bradycardia is present as one of the above conditions, a single-chamber pacemaker might be used to stimulate the faulty chamber. If both sick sinus syndrome and heart block are present, ...
Depends on the severity of the cardiac anomalies, but even with surgical correction or palliation the one-year survival rate is approximately 50%. The association of congenital heart block with polysplenia has a particularly poor prognosis.
The patient may also have extra-articular disease, such as acute anterior iritis (in about 25% of patients), proximal root aortitis and heart block, and apical pulmonary fibrosis.
It may, however, indicate conduction problems, especially in older people. In one type of bradycardia, called sinoatrial or atrioventricular block, or heart block, rhythm can be maintained by implanted electrodes that act as artificial pacemakers.
Neonatal lupus occurs as a result of passively acquired auto antibodies from a mother with lupus. Skin, liver, and blood problems resolve by 6 months, but the most serious manifestation-congenital heart block-requires a pacemaker and has a mortality ...
If this does occur the baby will be at risk of foetal distress, need for preterm birth and even stillbirth .
Uncommon problems include congenital foetal heart block (very slow foetal heart rate) and transient lupus in the newborn baby.
Pacemakers may be used for people who have heart problems that cause their heart to beat too slowly. A slow heartbeat is called bradycardia. Two common problems that cause a slow heartbeat are sinus node disease and heart block.
Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) which at times is referred to as a severe form of CPEO with pigmentary retinopathy, complete heart block and occurs before the age of 20 will not be included in this discussion.
It is the most typical type of restrictive cardiomyopathy. Cardiac amyloidosis may affect the way electrical signals move through the heart (conduction system). This can lead to arrhythmias and conduction disturbances (heart block).
Additional symptoms may include mild skeletal muscle weakness, heart block (a cardiac conduction defect), short stature, hearing loss, an inability to coordinate voluntary movements (ataxia), impaired cognitive function, and diabetes.
 See also: Symptom, Heart failure, Heart Disease, Arrhythmia, Surgery
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