Richard Sutton

TL;DR: Detailed histological examination of the conduction system in 29 cases of acute myocardial infarction complicated by heart block has been carried out, finding findings consistent with the high incidence of transient heart block in survivors.

TL;DR: In a series of forty patients with heart block after myocardial infarction, low intracardiac potentials which failed to inhibit the pacemaker were observed in six patients, suggesting that the risk of inappropriate inhibition of the unit by mains-frequency becomes appreciable.

TL;DR: The mortality was 45·5% in 55 patients treated with artificial pacing for atrio-ventricular conduction disturbance complicating acute myocardial infarction, and the most important factor in the high mortality was myocardious failure, which caused 21 of the 25 deaths as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This study evaluated theidence of unsuspected coronaryarterydisease in middle aged patients presenting with chronic atrioventricular block and found no evidence of sustained improvement inatrioventricULAR conduction.

TL;DR: It is concluded that long pacing is notjustified in patients, otherwise asymptomatic, with partial bilateral bundle-branch block persisting after transient complete heart block inanterior myocardial infarction.