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branch

 [branch]
a division or offshoot from a main stem, especially of blood vessels, nerves, or lymphatics. Called also ramus.
bundle branch a branch of the bundle of His.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

bundle branch

One of the two branches of conducting muscle tissue originating in the BUNDLE OF HIS and running down on each side of the septum between the ventricles near to its surfaces.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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The prognostic significance of typical perfusion defects on vasodilator stress myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with left bundle branch block or right ventricular apical pacing.
Pinski, "Acute Myocardial Infarction and Complete Bundle Branch Block A Hospital Admission: Clinical Characteristics and Outcome in the Thrombolytic Era." (16) AV Blocks and intraventricular blocks in stage 4 are 38.8% and 92% respectively.
KEYWORDS: Intraventricular dyssynchrony, Left bundle branch block.
It was based on scores as in parenthesis: sinus tachycardia (2); incomplete right bundle branch block (2); complete right bundle branch block (3); T-wave inversion, graded by magnitude (V1 [0 to 2], V2 [1 to 3], V3 [1 to 3], V1 through V4 all inverted 2 mm [4]); S1Q3T3 complex components (S wave in lead I [0], Q wave in lead III [1], inverted T wave in lead III [1], and the entire S1Q3T3 complex [2]).
Medical College, Amritsar, out of which 30 patients as case (Group A: Patients of myocardial infarction with bundle branch block) and 30 patients as control (Group B: Patients of myocardial infarction without bundle branch block) were enrolled in this study.
Beat to beat variation of the ST segment in a patient with right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation, and ventricular fibrillations: a case report.
Brugada, "Right bundle branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death: a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome: a multicenter report," Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol.
The examination revealed the right bundle branch block with ST-T changes.
It is characterized by persistent or transient ST elevation with successive negative T wave in the right precordial leads (V1, V2) with or without right bundle branch block in the absence of structural heart abnormalities.
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