Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
19 Months back I had a large PE where I threw 2 heart enzymes. I was in arrhythmia in the ER . I was told by the DR the enzymes might be from the arrhythmia. It just hit me as lately 2 nurses told me I have a wide vq, I think they said, or wide QT which is where the heart nerves are disrupted . In my case the right bundle and then the left bundle takes over to fire the right ventricle. Hence the wide part on the graph because of the longer route.
I researched this and now find that it can happen from a PE, damaging the right bundle nerves branch. I guess from the strain on some tissues. None of the doctors told me this. I have gotten my records and now will try to find an EKG taken before my PE to see if I was normal before the PE. Some people are born with the right bundle branch block - RBBB 10% or a lot more and they live normal lives. But I want to see if the PE did this to me. A lot of meds can do this also.
I researched this and now find that it can happen from a PE, damaging the right bundle nerves branch. I guess from the strain on some tissues. None of the doctors told me this. I have gotten my records and now will try to find an EKG taken before my PE to see if I was normal before the PE. Some people are born with the right bundle branch block - RBBB 10% or a lot more and they live normal lives. But I want to see if the PE did this to me. A lot of meds can do this also.
ShilosMommy
I have this too and basically all my doctors agree it's from the PE. Those particular nerves are apparently really delicate and easily injured with strain on the right heart. It's pretty much a not clinically significant finding, though, as I understand it. It doesn't ill affect our overall heart health, since everything still works. In fact, despite having the RBBB, I've had many EKGs that are considered "normal". And you're right, some people are just born with this issue, but have no problems as a result. So personally, I guess it's kind of irrelevant the cause, since it isn't anything apparently prejudicial to my health.
rmb
Yeah, my Cardiologist used "heart damage" as a catch all for any damage from the strain on the right side of the heart. So this is not necessarily an unsurprising finding and makes sense it would be from the PE.
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