Effect of chronic right atrial stretch on atrial electrical remodeling in patients with an atrial septal defect

Circulation

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1775-1782

  Morton, Joseph B ^b   Sanders, Prashanthan ^b   Vohra, Jitendra K ^a   Sparks, Paul B ^a   Morgan, John G ^a   Spence, Steven J ^a   Grigg, Leeanne E ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defects; Fibrillation; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ELECTRICAL REMODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIAL STRETCH; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONDUCTION VELOCITY; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS NODE; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037426435     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000058164.68127.F2     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Murphy JG, Gersh BJ, McGoon MD, et al. Long-term outcome after surgical repair of isolated atrial septal defect: follow-up at 27 to 32 years. N Engl J Med. 1990;323:1645-1650.
2. Tomita Y, Matsuo K, Sahadevan J, et al. Role of functional block extension in lesion-related atrial flutter. Circulation. 2001;103:1025-1030.
3. Li D, Fareh S, Leung TK, et al. Promotion of atrial fibrillation by heart failure in dogs: atrial remodeling of a different sort. Circulation. 1999;100:87-95.
4. Boyden PA, Hoffman BF. The effects on atrial electrophysiology and structure of surgically induced right atrial enlargement in dogs. Circ Res. 1981;49:1319-1331.
5. Sparks PB, Mond HG, Vohra JK, et al. Electrical remodeling of the atria following loss of atrioventricular synchrony: a long-term study in humans. Circulation. 1999;100:1894-1900.
6. Wijffels MCEF, Kirchhof CJHJ, Dorland R, et al. Atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation: a study in awake chronically instrumented goats. Circulation. 1995;92:1954-1968.
7. Papageorgiou P, Monahan K, Boyle NG, et al. Site-dependent intra-atrial conduction delay: relationship to initiation of atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 1996;94:384-389.
8. Cosio FG, Arribas F, Barbero JM, et al. Validation of double-spike electrograms as markers of conduction delay or block in atrial flutter. Am J Cardiol. 1988;61:775-780.
9. Olgin JE, Kalman JM, Fitzpatrick AP, et al. Role of right atrial endocardial structures as barriers to conduction during human type I atrial flutter: activation and entrainment mapping guided by intracardiac echocardiography. Circulation. 1995;92:1839-1848.
10. Cheng J, Cabeen WRJ, Scheinman MM. Right atrial flutter due to lower loop reentry: mechanism and anatomic substrates. Circulation. 1999;99:1700-1705.
11. Cox JL, Canavan TE, Schuessler RB, et al. The surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, II: intraoperative electrophysiologic mapping and description of the electrophysiologic basis of atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1991;101:406-426.
12. Arenal A, Almendral J, Alday JM, et al. Rate-dependent conduction block of the crista terminalis in patients with typical atrial flutter: influence on evaluation of cavotricuspid isthmus conduction block. Circulation. 1999;99:2771-2778.
13. Schumacher B, Jung W, Schmidt H, et al. Transverse conduction capabilities of the crista terminalis in patients with atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999;34:363-373.
14. Shimizu A, Nozaki A, Rudy Y, et al. Characterization of double potentials in a functionally determined reentrant circuit: multiplexing studies during interruption of atrial flutter in the canine pericarditis model. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;22:2022-2032.
15. Feld GK, Shahandeh-Rad F. Mechanism of double potentials recorded during sustained atrial flutter in the canine right atrial crush-injury model. Circulation. 1992;86:628-641.
16. Kort HW, Balzer DT, Johnson MC. Resolution of right heart enlargement after closure of secundum atrial septal defect with transcatheter technique. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001;38:1528-1532.
17. Kalman JM, Sparks PB. Electrical remodeling of the atria as a consequence of atrial stretch. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2001;12:51-55.
18. Allessie M, Ausma J, Schotten U. Electrical, contractile and structural remodeling during atrial fibrillation. Cardiovasc Res. 2002;54:230-246.
19. Everett TH, Li H, Mangrum JM, et al. Electrical, morphological, and ultrastructural remodeling and reverse remodeling in a canine model of chronic atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2000;102:1454-1460.
20. Buxton AE, Waxman HL, Marchlinski FE, et al. Atrial conduction: effects of extrastimuli with and without atrial dysrhythmias. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54:755-761.
21. Saffitz JE, Kanter HL, Green KG, et al. Tissue-specific determinants of anisotropic conduction velocity in canine atrial and ventricular myocardium. Circ Res. 1994;74:1065-1070.
22. Ortiz J, Niwano S, Abe H, et al. Mapping the conversion of atrial flutter to atrial fibrillation and atrial fibrillation to atrial flutter: insights into mechanisms. Circ Res. 1994;74:882-894.
23. Bolens M, Friedli B. Sinus node function and conduction system before and after surgery for secundum atrial septal defect: an electrophysiologic study. Am J Cardiol. 1984;53:1415-1420.
24. Elvan A, Wylie K, Zipes DP. Pacing-induced chronic atrial fibrillation impairs sinus node function in dogs: electrophysiological remodeling. Circulation. 1996;94:2953-2960.