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A 60-year-old male with heart failure and severely reduced left ventricular function was scheduled for elective implantation of a cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillator device. Coronary artery angiography revealed no significant coronary artery disease. He remained symptomatic despite guideline-directed optimal medical therapy. The ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) showed sinus rhythm with a slightly prolonged PR interval, ventricular ectopic beats and complete left bundle branch block (LBBB) with QRS duration ~150 ms and mid-QRS notching in > 2 leads, consistent with the Strauss criteria for LBBB (Fig. 1; [1]). The device implantation was successful, and there were no procedural complications. A postoperative ECG was obtained on the cardiology ward shortly after the procedure (Fig. 2).
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Strauss DG, Selvester RH, Wagner GS. Defining left bundle branch block in the era of cardiac resynchronization therapy. Am J Cardiol. 2011;107:927–34.
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S.A.J. Timmer is consultant for Medtronic. T. Germans declares that he has no competing interests.
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Timmer, S.A.J., Germans, T. Cardiac resynchronisation therapy in optima forma. Neth Heart J 30, 289–290 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12471-022-01682-y
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