The compensatory pause after the PVC is slightly longer than the junctional escape interval and allows the junctional rhythm to escape for 5 beats. During this period, the P waves from the sinus ...
A junctional rhythm occurs when the electrical activation of the heart originates near or within the atrioventricular node, rather than from the sinoatrial node. Because the normal ventricular ...
The correct diagnosis is Wenckebach with junctional escape beats (Figure 2). Figure 2. Courtesy of Philip J. Podrid, MD. The rhythm is irregular, but there is a pattern because many of the RR ...
In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; DOI https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2021.0018, Min Lin, Yuqin Xiong, Yipin Lin, Yuhua Li and ...
Background A routine sports evaluation identified constant alternation between a junctional and idioventricular rhythm in a 9-year-old child. During exercise testing, electrography demonstrated that ...
An electrocardiogram (Fig. 1) of the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (in the September 18 issue) needs a few comments or corrections. First of all, the entire tracing in Figure 1 is ...