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What is the attributing electrocardiographic phenomenon underlying a concomitant 2:1 and Wenckebach atrio-ventricular
Daiju Ono1, Takashi Nakashima2, Masaru Nagase1
1Department of Cardiology, Kizawa Memorial Hospital, Minokamo, Japan.
Abstract:
We herein describe the case of a spontaneously observed bidirectional block (both entrance and exit block) at the sino-atrial junction. This bidirectional block at the sino-atrial junction associated with the failure of conduction to the ventricle revealed the Wenckebach periodicity of the atrio-ventricular conduction.
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