Mechanisms of fibrillation: Neurogenic or myogenic? Reentrant or focal? multiple or single?: Still puzzling after 160 years of inquiry

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1274-1275

  Kurian, Thomas K ^a   Efimov, Igor R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DOGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 78249248957     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2010.01820.x     Document Type: Note

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