Differences in atrial fibrillation properties under vagal nerve stimulation versus atrial tachycardia remodeling

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1465-1472

  Katsouras, Grigorios ^a   Sakabe, Masao ^a   Comtois, Philippe ^a   Maguy, Ange ^a   Burstein, Brett ^a   Guerra, Peter G ^a   Talajic, Mario ^a   Nattel, Stanley ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia mechanisms; Atrial remodeling; Autonomic function; Biophysics; Electrophysiology; Reentry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATRIAL EFFECTIVE REFRACTORY PERIOD; ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA REMODELING; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BACHMANN BUNDLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; LEFT ATRIAL INFERIOR WALL; LEFT ATRIAL POSTERIOR WALL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RIGHT ATRIAL INFERIOR WALL; RIGHT ATRIAL POSTERIOR WALL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DOG; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 76949106382     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.034     Document Type: Article

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