Functional Mechanisms Underlying Tachycardia-Induced Sustained Atrial Fibrillation in a Chronic Dog Model
- 2 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 96 (11) , 4027-4035
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.96.11.4027
Abstract
Background Rapid atrial activation causes electrical remodeling that promotes atrial fibrillation (AF), but underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. We applied epicardial mapping to evalu...Keywords
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