The atrial flutter reentrant circuit. Additional pieces of the puzzle.
The atrial flutter reentrant circuit. Additional pieces of the puzzle.
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心房扑动折返回路。
DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.94.3.244
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发表时间:
1996
期刊:
影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
A. Waldo
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
G. V. Van Hare;A. Waldo
For a time, there was a substantial school of thought that held that atrial flutter was due to a single focus firing rapidly.1 It has more recently been established that atrial flutter is due to reentry.1 Over the years, and largely on the basis of animal studies, the nature of the atrial flutter reentrant circuit has been thought or demonstrated to include reentry around anatomic obstacles such as the great veins or the pulmonary veins, reentry around atrial lesions, and reentry around functional obstacles.2 Reentry around the tricuspid annulus was demonstrated in the presence of critical right atrial lesions,3 and many years ago, Sir Thomas Lewis could only explain a limited sequential site atrial flutter map in a canine model by postulating reentry around the mitral annulus.4 However, it is now accepted that classic (type I) atrial flutter in patients is due to macroreentry involving the right atrium.1 Initial activation mapping studies of the typical form of atrial flutter in patients showed a “counterclockwise” reentrant activation in the right atrium,5 6 7 but the elements of the right atrium that supported reentry and were critical to the maintenance of the atrial flutter reentrant circuit were not yet appreciated.
From studies using concealed entrainment techniques8 as well as techniques for precise placement of ablative lesions, it is now well established that one critical element of the atrial flutter reentrant circuit is the isthmus between the inferior vena cava and the tricuspid valve annulus.9 In this issue of Circulation , two carefully performed studies provide additional important details concerning the critical elements of the reentrant circuit.10 11 Both studies rely on the concept of concealed entrainment to support conclusions involving whether certain atrial sites are part of the atrial flutter reentrant circuit. …
影响因子:
37.8
作者:
Waldo,AL
通讯作者:
Waldo,AL