Bundle of His - Right and Left Bundle Branches

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The depolarization wave leaves the AV node and enters a compact tract of cardiac conduction system fibers known as the bundle of His. The bundle of His proceeds down the interventricular septum to the inferior border of the membranous septum where it bifurcates forming the right and left bundle branches

. The right bundle branch spreads the electrical impulse to the right ventricle. The left bundle branch spreads the electrical impulse to the interventricular septum and left ventricle. The left bundle branch divides into two branches. The first branch, the anterior superior fascicle, conducts the impulse to the anterior and superior segments of the left ventricle. The second branch, the posterior inferior fascicle, conducts the impulse to the posterior and inferior segments of the heart.


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