Circus movement atrial flutter in canine sterile pericarditis model. Activation patterns during entrainment and termination of single-loop reentry in vivo.

W Schoels, M Restivo, EB Caref, WB Gough… - Circulation, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND Recently, we used a custom designed" jacket" electrode with 127 bipolar
electrodes in a flexible nylon matrix to map the total atrial epicardial surface in the in situ …

Circus movement atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model. Activation patterns during initiation, termination, and sustained reentry in vivo.

W Schoels, WB Gough, M Restivo… - Circulation research, 1990 - Am Heart Assoc
The mechanisms of single-loop reentry in a syncytium without anatomically predetermined
pathways have not been shown. Using a" jacket electrode" with 111 bipolar electrodes in a …

Circus movement atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model: relation of characteristics of the surface electrocardiogram and conduction properties of the …

W Schoels, B Offner, J Brachmann, W Kuebler… - Journal of the American …, 1994 - Elsevier
Objectives. This study was designed to elucidate the basis for the electrocardiographic
(ECG) appearance of atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model. Background …

Onset of induced atrial flutter in the canine pericarditis model

A Shimizu, A Nozaki, Y Rudy, AL Waldo - Journal of the American College …, 1991 - Elsevier
To test the hypothesis that induced atrial flutter evolves from a transitional rhythm, the onset
of 99 episodes of induced atrial flutter (mean cycle length 135±18 ms) lasting> 5 min in 40 …

Circus movement atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model. Cryothermal termination from the epicardial site of the slow zone of the reentrant circuit.

N Isber, M Restivo, WB Gough, H Yang, N el-Sherif - Circulation, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND We have shown that atrial flutter (AF) in dogs with sterile pericarditis is
commonly due to a single-loop reentrant circuit in the lower right atrium comprised of a …

Circus movement atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model. Differential effects of procainamide on the components of the reentrant pathway.

W Schoels, H Yang, WB Gough, N El-Sherif - Circulation research, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
To evaluate the mechanisms of action of procainamide on the components of the reentrant
pathway, drug-induced changes in activation patterns, effective refractory periods (ERPs) …

Mechanism of spontaneous termination of stable atrial flutter in the canine sterile pericarditis model.

J Ortiz, M Igarashi, HX Gonzalez, K Laurita, Y Rudy… - Circulation, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND We tested the hypotheses that spontaneous termination of stable atrial
flutter is directly related to spontaneous beat-to-beat cycle length oscillations and that block …

Multiplexing studies of effects of rapid atrial pacing on the area of slow conduction during atrial flutter in canine pericarditis model.

A Shimizu, A Nozaki, Y Rudy, AL Waldo - Circulation, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND We report that rapid atrial pacing interrupts atrial flutter when the
orthodromic wave front from the pacing impulse is blocked in an area of slow conduction in …

A unified functional/anatomic substrate for circus movement atrial flutter: activation and refractory patterns in the canine right atrial enlargement model

W Schoels, W Kuebler, H Yang, WB Gough… - Journal of the American …, 1993 - Elsevier
Objectives. This study was designed to test the concept of a functional/anatomic interaction
in a canine model of reentry based on right atrial enlargement and to elucidate the …

Atrial activation sequence during atrial flutter in the canine pericarditis model and its effects on the polarity of the flutter wave in the electrocardiogram

K Okumura, VJ Plumb, PL Pagé, AL Waldo - Journal of the American …, 1991 - Elsevier
Stable atrial flutter induced in both conscious and open chest states was studied in 30
mongrel dogs after production of sterile pericarditis. During the conscious state studies …