Role of pectinate muscle bundles in the generation and maintenance of intra-atrial reentry: Potential implications for the mechanism of conversion between atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter

Circulation Research

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 448-462

  Wu, Tsu Juey ^a,c   Yashima, Masaaki ^a   Xie, Fagen ^b   Athill, Charles A ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^b   Qu, Zhilin ^b   Garfinkel, Alan ^b   Weiss, James N ^b   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^a   Chen, Peng Sheng ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Atrial arrhythmia; Pectinate muscle bundle; Reentry; Source sink relationship

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOG; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

EID: 0032563714     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.83.4.448     Document Type: Article

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