Purkinje System

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The depolarization wave is finally conducted to the Purkinje Fibers at the ends of the bundle branches. These specialized cardiac conduction system fibers form a rapid conduction network within the myocardium and are responsible for propagating the depolarization wave to all cardiac muscle cells. The QRS complex of the electrocardiogram represents the ventricular depolarization of contraction.

Following ventricular contraction and the QRS complex is a brief period of low electrical activity. On the electrocardiogram this appears as the S-T segment. Ventricular repolarization is represented by the T-wave on the electrocardiogram. The T-wave deflection is also in the same direction of the largest deflection of the QRS complex because the electrical forces of repolarization are transmitted from the epicardial surface to the endocardial surfaces in the same direction as depolarization.


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