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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-23
pubmed:abstractText
Several experimental models have been proposed to explain the electrocardiographic and electrophysiological characteristics of atrial flutter. In animal models based on anatomical obstacles, intercaval crush or Y like shaped lesion located in the right atrium, it has been possible to induce sustained atrial arrhythmias in which the entrainment criteria could be demonstrated. Additionally these tachycardias presented an atrialwave morphology similar to the F waves of type 1 or typical atrial flutter. Flutter type 2 could better be explained by models based on functional reentry like the leading circle. Typical atrial flutter in human, saw teeth morphology in inferior ECG leads, is though to be a circus movement located in the right atrium, as deduced of the analysis of activation sequence, resetting and entrainment phenomena from right and left atrium. Moreover the successful results of RDF ablation procedures confirm this idea. Nevertheless the delimitation of the anatomical boundaries of the reentry pathway remains inconclusive.
pubmed:language
spa
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0300-8932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49 Suppl 2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
[Mechanism and location of typical atrial flutter. Information drawn from experimental models and clinical electrophysiology].
pubmed:affiliation
Departmento de Cardiología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract