Atrioventricular Node Anatomy and Physiology: What Have We Learned from Catheter Ablation?

Authors :: Filippo Lamberti
Lucia Garberoglio
Riccardo Riccardi
Fiorenzo Gaita
M. Alciati
Marco Scaglione
Source :: Cardiac Arrhythmias 1995 ISBN: 9783540750123
Publication Year :: 1996
Publisher :: Springer Milan, 1996.
Abstract: Atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is the most frequent form of supraventricular tachycardia. Its electrophysiologic mechanism has been known for many years. In 1913 Mines (1) first performed experiments on the AV connections of the heart and explained the mechanism of this arrhythmia as follows

Subjects :: Tachycardia
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Slow pathway
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Catheter ablation
Anatomy
medicine.disease
Atrioventricular node
medicine.anatomical_structure
Internal medicine
cardiovascular system
medicine
Cardiology
cardiovascular diseases
Supraventricular tachycardia
medicine.symptom
business

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