Tuesday, July 22, 2003

A Right Bundle Branch Block

Posted at 11:40 PM

My wife went to the hospital for her stress test on Monday but we still haven’t got the results from the cardiologist. Although she did hear him mutter “hmmm, a right bundle branch block” as he glanced at the electrocardiogram. What a geek.

While a left bundle branch block indicates something scary, a right bundle branch block happens in perfectly normal, healthy people too and doesn’t always mean heart disease.

God-willing my wife’s cardiologist can tell his left from his right.

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Don Melton

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