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Wondering if anyone on the forum knows anythng about this. I have to have an echocardiogram on Monday pre total hip replacement. I have been told that the condtion is quite common, but I have posted on this before, and nobody seems to have come across it, as I had one sympathy response, but no real feedback!
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derek76 susie74530
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susie74530 derek76
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My subject title was "Right Bundle Branch Block." This finding is an incidental finding when an ecg is conducted. The echocardiogram is a Doppler sonogram into the condition of the heart and how it is performing.
Why you thought I had made the erroneous assumption that an echocardiogram was the "condition," is beyond me, particularly as I had stated that I was awaiting an echocardiogram to be done BECAUSE of the RBBB!
When advised of this finding (condition) I embarked upon a considerable amount of research into the condition, and I know exactly what it is,and why, in some cases, an investigation would be carried out. Hence, the echocardiogram - the means by which a Doppler ultrasound investigation is made, but only one of many others, should they be required. In my case pre major surgery.
With a PhD from U.C. Berkeley at California, I am well able to understand the difference between RBBB and an echocadiogram, and do the necessary research, both scanning the "scholarly" papers and those for the layman!
My question was, has anyone run into the condition, Right Bundle Branch Block.
Your response is somewhat late, as I had the echo performed last Monday, April 11, 2016, and am awaiting the results in the hope that nothing of a "sinister" nature has been discovered.
Do hope that this answers your response!
derek76 susie74530
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I'm glad that you had such a good education in your adopted country.
It may have been posted four days ago but only reached my PC at 14.48 GMT today.
Is hip replacement still considered major Surgery? Here many patients are allowed home the same day.
Most people with bundle branch block are symptom-free and don't need treatment. However, if you have an underlying heart condition causing bundle branch block, treatment of the underlying condition is recommended. Treatment of underlying conditions may involve using medications to reduce high blood pressure or lessen the effects of heart failure, or the use of a coronary angioplasty to open up the artery leading to your heart.
Some info on this very site if needed but you seem to have it all coverrd by now.:
https://patient.info/doctor/ecg-identification-of-conduction-disorders
susie74530 derek76
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It is still posible that there maybe an underlying cause, and I do not have the results, yet, I do not have this information.
I do not have hypertension, heart failure, and until the arthritis really set in was running seven miles a day. I have my own BP kit, monitor my BP. All other pre op tests are fine. Monitor myself for diabetes which is negative.
What I need to do now, is try to relax and await the results. There is no point in doing any further research, as I have exhausted all of the more professionally lead sites.
derek76 susie74530
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Prior to prostate surgery in 2006 the anesthetist did not like my ECG (EKG to Americans) and said that he did not want me to die on him and insisted that I had an echocardiogram on the morning of the procedure. It was OK and the operation went ahead.
By the next time I had an echocardiogram in 2011 I had aortic stenosis with my valve 70% closed although I was not symptomatic. Since having my valve replaced I have an annual echo and the lady who does it is not a doctor but does the full report to the cardiologist. As I take an interest in what she is doing she gives me a rundown as she works.
Be glad you do not have my labile BP. Last night at bed time it was 101/64 pulse 65. This morning after breakfast it was 179/101 59. By late afternoon after an opthamology appointment, sitting around for three hours at the hospital and then doing some shopping it was 98/54 78.