Mechanism of atrial fibrillation: Decremental conduction, fragmentation, and ectopic activity in patients with drug resistant paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and structurally normal heart

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Cozma, Dragos ^a   Kalifa, Jerome ^b   Lighezan, Daniel ^a   Pescariu, Sorin ^a   Deharo, Jean Claude ^b   Mornos, Cristian ^a   Djiane, Pierre ^b   Dragulescu, Stefan Iosif ^a  

^a Timisoara Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine   (Romania)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Decremental conduction; Inter atrial conduction time

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 12844260837     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00020.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Haissaguerre M, Shah DC, Jais P, et al. Mapping-guided ablation of pulmonary veins to cure atrial fibrillation. Am J Cardiol 2000; 86(9 Suppl 1):K9-K19.
2. Tsai CF, Tai CT, Hsieh MH, et al. Initiation of atrial fibrillation by ectopic beats originating from the superior vena cava: Electrophysiological characteristics and results of radiofrequency ablation. Circulation 2000; 102:67-74.
3. Allessie MA, Boyden PA, Camm J, et al. Pathophysiology and prevention of atrial fibrillation. Circulation 2001; 103:769-777.
4. Simpson RJ, Amara I, Foster JR, et al. Threshold, refractory periods and conduction times of the normal diseased human atrium. Am Heart J 1988; 116:1080-1090.
5. Cosio FG, Palacios J, Vidal JM, et al. Electrophysiologic studies in atrial fibrillation: Slow conduction of premature impulses, a possible manifestation of the background for reentry. Am J Cardiol 1983; 51:122-136.
6. 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.
7. Ramdat Misier AR, Opthof T, Van Hemel NM, et al. Increased dispersion of refractoriness in patients with idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 1992; 19:1531-1535.
8. Platonov PG, Yuan S, Hertervig E, et al. Further evidence of localized posterior inter-atrial conduction delay in lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Europace 2001; 3:100-107.
9. Papageorgiou P, Monahan K, Boyle NG, et al. Site-dependent intraatrial conduction delay: Relationship to initiation of atrial fibrillation. Circulation 1996; 94:384-389.
10. Konings KTS, Smeets J, Penn OC, et al. Configuration of unipolar atrial electrograms during electrically induced atrial fibrillation in humans. Circulation 1997; 95:1231-1241.
11. American Society of Echocardiography Committee on Standards. Recommendations for quantitation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1989; 2:358-387.
12. Omori I, Inoue D, Shirayama T, et al. Prolonged atrial activity due to delayed conduction in the atrium of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Heart Vessels 1991; 6:224-228.
13. Papageorgiou P, Anselme F, Charles JHJ, et al. Coronary sinus pacing prevents induction of atrial fibrillation. Circulation 1997; 96:1893-1898.
14. Saksena S, Giorgberidze I, Mehra R, et al. Electrophysiology and endocardial mapping of induced atrial fibrillation in patients with spontaneous atrial fibrillation. Am J Cardiol 1999; 15(83):187-193.
15. Daubert JC, Pavin D, Jauvert G, et al. Intra- and inter-atrial conduction delay: Implications for cardiac pacing. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2004; 27:507-525.
16. Yu WC, Tsai CF, Hsieh MH, et al. Prevention of the initiation of atrial fibrillation: Mechanism and efficacy of different atrial pacing modes. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2000; 23:373-379.
17. Yu WC, Chen SA, Tai CT, et al. Effects of different atrial pacing modes on atrial electrophysiology: Implicating the mechanism of biatrial pacing in prevention of atrial fibrillation. Circulation 1997; 96:2992-2996.
18. Gasparini M, Mantica M, Coltorti F, et al. The use of advanced mapping systems to guide right linear lesions in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Eur Heart J Suppl. 2001; 3(Suppl P):P41-P46.