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In this chapter the author discusses the different types of heart blocks and their causes, presentation, and evaluation, the bifascicular and the trifascicular concept of Mauricio Rosenbaum, the HV interval in bifascicular blocks and its significance, bundle branch blocks due to longitudinal dissociation, trans-aortic valve replacement-related AV block, and, finally, the treatment of heart blocks.

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