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“AV Nodal” Reentry:
Author(s) -
JANSE MICHIEL J.,
H ROBERT,
McGUIRE MARK A.,
HO SIEW
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.193
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1540-8167
pISSN - 1045-3873
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1993.tb01244.x
Subject(s) - reentry , nodal , medicine , node (physics) , reentrancy , cardiology , computer science , structural engineering , engineering , programming language
“AV Nodal” Reentry. This review is the first of a two‐part series of articles on “atrioven‐tricular [AV] nodal reentry,” The early clinical literature as well as the experimental studiesare reviewed, and more recent morphologic data are presented, with the aim of clarifyingwhether the reentrant circuit is contined to the AV node, or consists in part of extranodal components. Most of the evidence supports the concept that atrial tissue is an essential link in thereentrant pathway. Arguments will be presented to indicate that within the AV node, the separation between antegrade and retrograde pathways is functional, not anatomical, and that bothpathways are in electrotonic contact.