Regional cooling facilitates termination of spiral-wave reentry through unpinning of rotors in rabbit hearts

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-114

  Yamazaki, Masatoshi ^a,b   Honjo, Haruo ^a   Ashihara, Takashi ^c   Harada, Masahide ^a   Sakuma, Ichiro ^d   Nakazawa, Kazuo ^e   Trayanova, Natalia ^f   Horie, Minoru ^c   Kalifa, Jérme ^b   Jalife, José ^b   Kamiya, Kaichiro ^a   Kodama, Itsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^f Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical mapping; Regional myocardial cooling; Spiral wave reentry; Unpinning; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART MUSCLE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; RABBITS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84555202493     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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