Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 9 , Pages 677-684 , September 2010

Cardiac drugs used in cross-sectional cardiac imaging: what the radiologist needs to know

  • P. McParland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK
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  • E.D. Nicol

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK
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  • S.P. Harden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: S. P. Harden, Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. Tel.: +44 (0) 2380 794833; fax: +44 (0) 2380 796341.

Received 25 January 2010 ,Revised 28 March 2010 ,Accepted 6 April 2010.

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    (a) First-degree heart block. The PR interval is longer than 0.2s. A QRS complex follows every P wave. (b) Second-degree heart block, Mobitz type 1. There is progressive lengthening of the PR interval

    (a) First-degree heart block. The PR interval is longer than 0.2s. A QRS complex follows every P wave. (b) Second-degree heart block, Mobitz type 1. There is progressive lengthening of the PR interval until eventually a QRS is dropped. (c) Second-degree heart block, Mobitz type 2. The PR interval is uniform, but the QRS is intermittently dropped. (d) Third-degree heart block. The P waves are completely disassociated from the QRS complexes. All these ECG traces reprinted with permission by Remedica from Arrhythmia (Chapter 8) in E.A. Ashley and J. Niebauer, Editors, Cardiology Explained, © 2004.

PII: S0009-9260(10)00151-0

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.04.002

Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 9 , Pages 677-684 , September 2010

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