Parasympathetic Blockade Promotes Recovery from Atrial Electrical Remodeling Induced by Short-term Rapid Atrial Pacing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-37

  Miyauchi, Mizuho ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshinori ^a   Miyauchi, Yasushi ^a   Abe, Junko ^a   Morita, Norishige ^a   Iwasaki, Yu Ki ^a   Hayashi, Meiso ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute electrical remodeling; Atrial fibrillation; Total autonomic blockade

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART DISEASE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

ATROPINE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROPRANOLOL; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 1642561538     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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