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Torsade in a patient with left bundle branch block: is there a long QT? (And: Left Bundle Pacing).

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JANUARY 2, 2025

And of course Ken's comments at the bottom) An elderly obese woman with cardiomyopathy, Left bundle branch block, and chronic hypercapnea presented hypoxic with altered mental status. I do not see OMI here and all trops were only minimally elevated, consistent with either chronic injury from cardiomyopathy or with acute injury from sepsis.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

A 65 y/o Female was admitted to the ICU for septic shock. The combination of prolonged QT and deep T wave inversion throughout the precordium is typical of Takotsubo syndrome, or Stress Cardiomyopathy – which can occur in the context of a physiologically distressed ICU patient, further compromising their hemodynamics.

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Torsade in a patient with left bundle branch block: is there a long QT? (And: Left Bundle Pacing).

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