Left versus right atrial difference in dominant frequency, K+ channel transcripts, and fibrosis in patients developing atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1415-1422

  Swartz, Michael F ^a   Fink, Gregory W ^a   Lutz, Charles J ^a   Taffet, Steven M ^a   Berenfeld, Omer ^d   Vikstrom, Karen L ^d   Kasprowicz, Kimberly ^b   Bhatta, Luna ^c   Puskas, Ferenc ^e   Kalifa, Jérôme ^d   Jalife, José ^a,d  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Electrophysiology; Fibrillation; Fibrosis; Fourier analysis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; IRON; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL CAV1.2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KIR2.2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KIR2.3; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KIR3.1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KIR3.4; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.5; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV4.3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; KV CHANNEL INTERACTING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLE TO THRESHOLD VALUE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FATTY INFILTRATION; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DOMINANT FREQUENCY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RHYTHM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM DOMINANT FREQUENCY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM FIBROSIS; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON STORAGE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINUS RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; KV CHANNEL-INTERACTING PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 76949085436     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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