One hundred years of atrial fibrillation

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-346

  Aronson, J K ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; DILTIAZEM; VERAPAMIL;

BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 26444462019     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2005.02501.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (21)

1. Fazekas T, Liszkai G, Bielik H, Luderitz B. Zur Geschichte des Vorhofflimmerns. Z Kardiol 2003; 92: 122-7.
2. Schweitzer P, Keller S. A history of atrial fibrillation. Vnitr Lek 2002; 48 (Suppl 1): 24-6.
3. Vulpian A. Note sur les effets de la faradisation directe des ventricules du coeur chez le chien. Arch Physiol Norm Pathol 1874; 6: 975.
4. Bouilland J. Traité Clinique des Maladies du Coeur. Paris: JB Baillière, 1835; 141-2.
5. Nothnagel H. Ueber arythmische Herzthätigkeit. Dtsch Arch Klin Med 1876; 17: 190-220.
6. Hering HE. Analyse des pulsus irregularis perpetuus. Prager Med Wochenschr 1903; 28: 377-81.
7. Flegel KM. From delirium cordis to atrial fibrillation: historical development of a disease concept. Ann Intern Med 1995; 122: 867-73.
8. MacKenzie J. New methods of studying affections of the heart. V. The inception of the rhythm of the heart by the ventricle. Br Med J 1905; 1: 812-5.
9. Silverman ME. From rebellious palpitations to the discovery of auricular fibrillation: contributions of Mackenzie, Lewis and Einthoven. Am J Cardiol 1994; 73: 384-9.
10. Einthoven W. Le télécardiogramme. Arch Int Physiol 1906; 4: 132-64.
11. Cushny AR, Edmunds CW. Paroxysmal irregularity of the heart and auricular fibrillation. In: Bulloch W (ed.). Studies in Pathology. Written by Alumni to Celebrate the Quatercentenary of the University of Aberdeen and the Quarter-Centenary of the Chair of Pathology Therein. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University, 1906; 95.
12. Cushny AR, Edmunds CW. Paroxysmal irregularity of the heart and auricular fibrillation. Am J Med Sci 1907; 133: 66-77.
13. Lewis T. Auricular fibrillation: a common clinical condition. Br Med J 1909; 2: 1528.
14. Rothberger G, Winterberg H. Vorhofflimmern und Arhythmia perpetua. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1909; 22: 839-44.
15. Falk RH. Pharmacologic control of the ventricular rate in atrial fibrillation. In: Falk RH, Podrid PJ (eds). Atrial Fibrillation: Mechanisms and Management, 2nd edn. Philadelphia, New York: Lippincott-Raven, 1997; 308-9.
16. Levine HJ. Rest heart rate and life expectancy. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 30: 1104-6.
17. Waktare J, Camm J. Atrial Fibrillation. London: Martin Dunitz, 2000; 54-5.
18. Atwood JE, Myers J, Sullivan M, Forbes S, Friis R, Pewen W, Callaham P, Hall P, Froelicher V. Maximal exercise testing and gas exchange in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 1988; 11: 508-13.
19. Iqbal MB, Taneja AK, Lip GYH, Flather M. Recent developments in atrial fibrillation. Br Med J 2005; 330: 238-43.
20. Kumana CR, Cheung BMY, Cheung GTY, Ovedal T, Pederson B, Lauder IJ. Rhythm vs. rate control of atrial fibrillation meta-analysed by number needed to treat. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2005; 60: 347-54.
21. Mackenzie J. New methods of studying affections of the heart. II. The action of digitalis on the human heart. Br Med J 1905; 1: 587-9.