Rate-dependent changes in atrial action potential duration after short-duration rapid atrial pacing in humans

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 874-875

  Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Masaki, Riko ^a   Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a   Oshikawa, Naohiro ^a   Saito, Satoshi ^a   Ozawa, Yukio ^a   Kanmatsuse, Katsuo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrical remodeling; Monophasic action potential

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART PACING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036731689     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.874     Document Type: Article

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