Open AccessPostextrasystolic potentiation and its contribution to the beat-to-beat variation of the pulse during atrial fibrillation.
Author(s) -
S Hardman,
Mark I. M. Noble,
W. A. Seed
Publication year - 1992
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.86.4.1223
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , beat (acoustics) , atrial fibrillation , contractility , stroke volume , heart rate , blood pressure , physics , acoustics
Beat-to-beat variations in the pulse during atrial fibrillation (AF) have conventionally been attributed to time-dependent changes in filling. We have explored the possibility that they are dependent on the intrinsic myocardial interval force relation.
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