Myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation: Importance of atrial ischemia

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 738-745

  Alasady, Muayad ^a   Shipp, Nicholas J ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Lim, Han S ^a   Lau, Dennis H ^a   Barlow, David ^a   Kuklik, Pawel ^a   Worthley, Matthew I ^a   Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^a   Saint, David A ^a   Abhayaratna, Walter ^b   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Atrial fibrillation; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial ischemia; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM INFARCTION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE INFARCTION; LATERAL CIRCUMFLEX FEMORAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; VELOCITY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REMODELING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; ATRIAL PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84884529834     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000163     Document Type: Article

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