Population
2 elderly patients (a 76-year-old female and an 81-year-old male) with complete heart block.
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
1.5 years (until death for both cases)
Authors
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May support His bundle localization in calcific AV block; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
This case series demonstrates that His bundle electrogram findings of A-H and H-V block accurately correlate with post-mortem histological lesions in the A-V node/penetrating bundle and bundle branches, respectively.
Ohkawa et al. (1977) studied this question.
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