Acute myocardial infarction and left bundle branch block with changing axis deviation.
Changing axis deviation has been reported also during atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. Changing axis deviation has been also reported during acute myocardial infarction associated with atrial fibrillation too or at the end of atrial fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction. Left bundle branch block is usually associated with normal or left axis deviation. Rarely the ECG shows a LBBB with changing QRS morphology and changing axis deviation. There are several possible explanations for the intermittent shift in the QRS axis in the presence of complete left bundle branch block. The most plausible explanation is the coexistence of left posterior hemiblock and predivisional left bundle branch block. We present a case of a left bundle branch block with changing axis deviation in a 93-year-old Italian woman admitted to the Cardiology Unit with an acute myocardial infarction.
Salvatore
S
Patanè
Filippo
F
Marte
Giuseppe
G
Dattilo
Mauro
M
Sturiale
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*