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Progressive and Persistent Atrial Inexcitability
Author(s) -
SANDERS PRASHANTHAN,
KALMAN JONATHAN M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00392.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bradycardia , sinus (botany) , cardiology , sinus bradycardia , automaticity , cardiac pacing , anesthesia , heart rate , blood pressure , botany , biology , genus , cognition , psychiatry
Sinus node disease is characterized by the presence of significant sinus bradycardia or prolonged sinus pauses, and is attributed to either primary failure of sinus node automaticity or sino‐atrial conduction disturbance. We present two patients with symptomatic bradycardia due to idiopathic global atrial inexcitability.