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Acronyms

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"Atrioventricular block, AV block or heart block is a conduction disturbance and a type of arrhythmia where the impulse transmission between the cardiac atria and ventricles is either transiently or permanently delayed or completely blocked ¹."

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"1st degree: prolongation of the PR interval (PR >200 ms) ²"

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"1st degree: prolongation of the PR interval (PR >200 ms) ²"

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"Mobitz type 1 (Wenckebach): progressive prolongation of the PR interval ultimately ending in a non-conducted P wave"

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"Mobitz type 2: intermittent non-conducted P waves with constant PR and stable PP intervals"

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"Mobitz type 2: intermittent non-conducted P waves with constant PR and stable PP intervals"

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"3rd degree: absence of atrioventricular nodal conduction resulting in a pattern where P waves are unrelated to the QRS complexes"

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List Caps

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"Mobitz type 1 (Wenckebach): progressive prolongation of the PR interval ultimately ending in a non-conducted P wave"

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"Mobitz type 2: intermittent non-conducted P waves with constant PR and stable PP intervals"

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Oxford Comma

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"Possible symptoms include fatigue, exercise intolerance, dyspnoea, chest pain, dizziness, syncope and cardiac arrest. The presence and frequency of clinical symptoms also depend on degree ¹."

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There Is

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"There are various possible functional and structural causes that are also related to the degree of atrioventricular block:"

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Biographical Lifespan

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"History and etymology"

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