The surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation

Circus movement in rabbit atrial muscle as a mechanism of tachycardia. III. The "leading circle" concept: a new model of circus movement in cardiac tissue without the involvement of an anatomical obstacle.

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Relating extracellular potentials and their derivatives to anisotropic propagation at a microscopic level in human cardiac muscle. Evidence for electrical uncoupling of side-to-side fiber connections with increasing age.

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Cardiac Muscle, Small Size Scale, Biomedical Engineering +22

Catheter-Induced Ablation of the Atrioventricular Junction to Control Refractory Supraventricular Arrhythmias

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The discontinuous nature of propagation in normal canine cardiac muscle. Evidence for recurrent discontinuities of intracellular resistance that affect the membrane currents.

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Intracellular Resistance, Muscle Physiology, Cardiac Muscle +13

Length of excitation wave and susceptibility to reentrant atrial arrhythmias in normal conscious dogs.

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Cardiac Muscle, Cardiac Anaesthesia, Critical Shortening +19