Reversal of atrial mechanical stunning after cardioversion of atrial arrhythmias: Implications for the mechanisms of tachycardia-mediated atrial cardiomyopathy

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1806-1813

  Sanders, Prashanthan ^a,b   Morton, Joseph B ^a,b   Morgan, John G ^a   Davidson, Neil C ^a   Spence, Steven J ^a   Vohra, Jitendra K ^a,b   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a,b   Sparks, Paul B ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Cardioversion; Echocardiography; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL MECHANICAL STUNNING; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 0036789281     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000032262.31520.E5     Document Type: Article

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