Long-term changes in sequence of atrial activation and refractory periods: No evidence for "atrial memory"

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-161

  Vollmann, Dirk ^a   Blaauw, Yuri ^a   Neuberger, Hans Ruprecht ^a   Schotten, Ulrich ^a   Allessie, Maurits ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrium; Cardiac memory; Electrophysiology; Pacing; Refractoriness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EPICARDIUM; GOAT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GOATS; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 13544268618     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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