First degree AV block echocardiography
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]
Overview
Echocardiography
Echocardiography is useful for finding structural heart disease in patients with First-degree AV block while symptoms suspected to be cardiac in origin including:
- Echocardiography can identify different cardiac structural abnormalities leading to bradycardia or conduction disturbance such as:
- Cardiomyopathy
- Valvular heart disease
- Congenital anomalies
- Tumors
- Infections
- Infiltrative processes
- Immunologically mediated conditions,
- Great vessels abnormalities
- Pericardium
- Endocarditis with or without perivalvular complications
- Aortic dissection
- Unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm