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Impact of Intracardiac Neurons on Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmogenesis in an Ex Vivo Langendorff System
Published on: May 22, 2018
Intrinsic neural reflexes in the post-transplant human heart
Krishnakumar Nair1, Menashe Waxman, Talha Farid
1University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2C4.
Abstract:
Radiofrequency ablation of post-transplant flutter in a centrally denervated donor atrium at a site remote from the AV node resulted in transient worsening of AV nodal conduction, with absent central vagal reinnervation. This could be an electrophysiological marker of intact innervation to the donor AV node from the intrinsic cardiac neuronal plexus, not demonstrated in human hearts earlier.
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