Mechanisms of AV node modulation in AV node reentry tachycardia.

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serval:BIB_EFFB906838DB
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Publications
Institution
Title
Mechanisms of AV node modulation in AV node reentry tachycardia.
Journal
Journal of Interventional Cardiology
Author(s)
Schläpfer J., Kappenberger L.
ISSN
0896-4327
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/1995
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
8
Number
6 Suppl.
Pages
862-866
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia has been recognized for many years as a very common cause of supraventricular tachycardia. First curable by surgery, this tachycardia is now successfully approached by selective radiofrequency current application to the slow pathway of the reentrant circuit. Importantly, these curative treatments brought evidence that the reentrant circuit of this arrhythmia was not confined to the compact atrioventricular (AV) node. These findings stimulate anatomists and basic and clinical electrophysiologists to fundamentally reconsider the atrioventricular junction in order to better understand the mysteries of atrioventricular junctional reentrant tachycardia, as we still do not know exactly what we are doing in AV node region procedures. This article will focus on the different hypotheses regarding the effect of selective slow AV pathway ablation in AV junctional reentrant tachycardia.
Keywords
Atrioventricular Node/physiopathology, Atrioventricular Node/surgery, Catheter Ablation, Humans, Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry/physiopathology, Tachycardia, Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry/surgery
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