Open AccessDemonstration of intra-atrial conduction delay, block, gap and reentry: a report of two cases.
Author(s) -
M Akhtar,
Anthony R. Caracta,
Sun H. Lau,
C J Gilbert,
A N Damato
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.58.5.947
Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , reentry , cardiology , clinical electrophysiology , cardiac electrophysiology , clinical practice , electrophysiology , family medicine
REENTRY HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY proposed as a mechanism for a variety of cardiac arrhythmias. For certain types of arrhythmias, the role of reentry appears well established.1 10 While intra-atrial reentry has long been suspected as a mechanism of some form of atrial arrhythmias, the phenomena of interor intra-atrial reentry in man have rarely been documented.8 11 The inability to demonstrate interor intra-atrial reentry in part relates to the limited number of intra-atrial recordings that can be used during routine electrophysiological studies.8' 11, 12 In this report we present observations in two patients showing the phenomena of intra-atrial conduction delay, block, gap and reentry.
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