The Impact of Pharmacologic Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Blockade on Atrial Electrogram Characteristics in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.

Background: Ablation of atrial autonomic inputs exerts antifibrillatory effects. However, because ablation destroys both myocardium and nerve cells, the effect of autonomic withdrawal alone remains unclear. We therefore examined the effects of pharmacologic autonomic blockade (PAB) on frequency and...

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Published in:Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 34; no. 11; pp. 1460 - 1468
Main Authors: Habel, Nicole, MÜLler, Joachim G., Znojkiewicz, Pierre, Thompson, Nathaniel, Calame, James, Calame, Susan, Noori, Arshia, Gallo, Annemarie, Lustgarten, Daniel L., Sobel, Burton E., Spector, Peter S.
Format: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2011
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