Mother rotors and fibrillatory conduction: A mechanism of atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 204-216

  Jalife, José ^a   Berenfeld, Omer ^a   Mansour, Moussa ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia (mechanisms); Supraventr. arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; PERFUSION; PULMONARY VEINS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0036219736     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00223-7     Document Type: Review

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