High-frequency ventricular ectopy can increase sympathetic neural activity in humans

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 497-503

  Smith, Michael L ^a   Hamdan, Mohamed H ^a,b   Wasmund, Stephen L ^a   Kneip, Christina F ^a   Joglar, Jose A ^b   Page, Richard L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Baroreflex; Sudden cardiac death; Sympathetic nerve activity; Ventricular Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CATECHOLAMINES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949539683     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.12.029     Document Type: Article

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