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Vagally mediated atrial fibrillation in a young man
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. ringdahle@health.missouri.edu
Archives of Family Medicine
|April 25, 2000
Abstract:
Atrial fibrillation may be provoked by either vagal or sympathetic stimulation. Sympathetic effects are common in middle-aged and elderly patients with underlying heart disease. However, in the young, non-diseased heart, vagal influences are more likely to predominate. Recognition of vagally mediated atrial fibrillation in young adults as a unique clinical entity has diagnostic and therapeutic implications.