Incomplete reentry and epicardial breakthrough patterns during atrial fibrillation in the sheep heart

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2649-2661

  Gray, Richard A ^a   Pertsov, Arkady M ^a   Jalife, José ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atrium; fibrillation; muscles; pacing; waves

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HEART PACING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SHEEP; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0029828721     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.10.2649     Document Type: Article

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