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First-degree A-V block

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Jason's Blog: ECG Challenge of the Week for March 31st - April 7th.

Patient's clinical data:  66-year-old white man.

Amongst the computer's several statements was the interpretation of "Undetermined rhythm".  To the computer's statement, the reviewing cardiologist added the freehand text of "Abnormally slow" but failed to provide a diagnosis.   

What is accounting for this pattern?

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Jason's Blog: ECG Challenge of the Week for Sept. 16-23. What probable clinical disorder is this tracing suggestive of?

Unfortunately this 12-lead ECG is over 20-years-old, so I have very limited information to go on but this is what I do know about it.

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Jason's Blog: ECG Challenge of the Week for August 19-26. The value of a previous, comparative ECG.

Patient clinical data:  68-year-old black man.

Question:
(1.)  What "pseudo" clue in Fig. 1 clinches the source of the mechanism seen in Fig. 2?

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Jason’s blog: ECG Challenge of the Week for June 24th – July 1st. Pinpoint the primary disturbance.

This patient was seen by his primary care provider (PCP) on an outpatient basis.  The PCP decided to send her patient over to me to perform a routine ECG and establish a baseline, hince the computer's statement below of "No previous ECGs available".  I printed out the above 12-lead ECG and became slightly concerned with the rhythm I was seeing.  Consequently, I also recorded six full pages of continuous rhythm (not shown here).  I don’t ordinarily resort to doing this

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