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- Title
"Atrial Fibrillopathy": Is Atrial Fibrillation Really Self-Perpetuating?
- Authors
Langberg, Jonathan J.
- Abstract
The article presents information about atrial fibrillopathy. Many patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) seem to have progressive difficulties. With time, their arrhythmia episodes become more frequent and longer lasting. Some patients with self-limited paroxysms develop recurrences that persist and require cardioversion. Others become refractory to antiarrhythmic drugs and are left with permanent AF. Electrical remodeling induced by persistent AF resolves within a few days in animal models. In preliminary human studies, atrial refractoriness normalizes in minutes alter spontaneous termination of brief AF episodes.
- Subjects
ATRIAL fibrillation; ELECTRIC countershock; DRUGS; ANIMAL models in research; ATRIAL arrhythmias; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 1999, Vol 10, Issue 8, p1109
- ISSN
1045-3873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8167.1999.tb00284.x