title: Normalisation of the ECG in a patient with right bundle branch block by cardiac pacing.
abstract: Right ventricular apical pacing (RVA) appears to have potential deleterious effects on myocardial systolic and diastolic left ventricular function, especially in patients with intact AV conduction. Therefore, new pacing sites in the right ventricle are being explored to overcome these detrimental effects. Alternative pacing sites in the right ventricle are the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) and the right ventricular septum (RVS). In this case report, we demonstrate an exceptional form of ventricular fusion, namely normalisation of the QRS complex in a patient with pre-existing right bundle branch block by RVS pacing. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature where right ventricular pacing could restore a complete RBBB to a normal QRS complex by stimulating distally from the anatomical position of the RBBB, due to fusion between artificial right ventricular stimulation and intrinsic conduction over the left bundle of the specific His-Purkinje system.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scheffer
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Tanis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Mechelen
keywords: cardiac pacing; right ventricular apical pacing