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Left bundle branch block is linked to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure through a pathogenetic chain involving morphological myocardial alterations and altered cardiac biomechanics.
This review summarizes the epidemiology, prognosis, and pathophysiology of left bundle branch block and its relationship with dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
This review summarizes the available information on the epidemiology and prognosis of patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB), morphological alterations of the myocardium both resulting in and ensuing LBBB, cardiac biomechanics in LBBB, and possibilities of its correction.
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Rimskaya et al. (2023) studied this question. Left bundle branch block is linked to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure through a pathogenetic chain involving morphological myocardial alterations and altered cardiac biomechanics.
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