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The Significance of Diagnostic Q Waves in the Presence of Bundle Branch Block
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METHODS
This is a report of the electrocardiographic and gross pathologic findings in 76 cases of complete RBBB and 116 cases of complete or incomplete LBBB seen at the Kennedy Veterans Administration Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, between December 1961 and June 1967. During this 6½-year period, four investigators carefully examined the heart at autopsy from patients in whom electrocardiograms (ECGs) taken in life were available. Serial section was made of the coronary arteries, the left ventricular
RESULTS
Examples of the variation in configuration of QRS complex with the three groupings of BBB may be seen in Figures 2, 3, and 4.
EPILOGUE
One of the most satisfactory memories of my years (1952-1958) in Dr. Burch's laboratory relate to his custom of “looking at the hearts” each Friday afternoon. This began after cardiology rounds with our grouping ourselves about a table in a small room in the Pathology Department of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Hospital: Dr. Burch, Dr. Joseph Ziskind—the pathologist, the cardiac fellows, the residents on cardiology, and a few senior medical students. Dr. Burch would pick up the first
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Presented in part at the symposium on “Acute Myocardial Infarction” at the Cardiopulmonary Institute, Methodist Hospital of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, September 11, 1969. This study was supported by a research grant from The Tennessee Heart Association, grants HE-5586, HE-08861, and HE-09495 of The National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, and a research grant from The Georgia Heart Association.