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By nature of the activation of the heart from the sinus node to the contractile ventricle, any disease process involving the A-V node, bundle of His or its branches, if sufficiently diffuse, may interrupt the conduction to the ventricle. This is the situation in atrio-ventricular block, a more precise term for the Stokes-Adams syndrome.
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Fontaine, G., Grosgogeat, Y., Welti, JJ., Tardieu, B. (1978). Intracardiac Conduction Defects. In: The Essentials in Cardiac Pacing. The Tardieu Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9736-3_3
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