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. 2023 Feb;16(2):e011623.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.122.011623. Epub 2023 Jan 23.

Premature Atrial Contraction Location and Atrial Fibrillation Inducibility

Stacey J Howell  1 , Jonathan W Dukes  2 , Eric Vittinghoff  3 , Janet J Tang  3 , Joshua D Moss  1 , Randall J Lee  1 , Byron K Lee  1 , Zian H Tseng  1 , Vasanth Vedantham  1 , Jeffrey E Olgin  1 , Melvin M Scheinman  1 , Henry Hsia  1 , Edward P Gerstenfeld  1 , Gregory M Marcus  1
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Premature Atrial Contraction Location and Atrial Fibrillation Inducibility

Stacey J Howell et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2023 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; atrial premature complexes; coronary sinus; pulmonary vein; risk.

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A. Proportion of Induced Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Effective Refractory Periods by Premature Atrial Contraction Location. B. Odds of Induced Atrial Fibrillation Compared to the Left Upper Pulmonary Vein Blue bars indicate the percentage of induced atrial fibrillation with respect to total premature atrial contractions across all participants administered from each site. Red circles indicate the mean AERP (ms), and the red Y-error bars indicate standard deviations. CSp denotes proximal coronary sinus; CSd denotes distal coronary sinus; HCT denotes high crista terminalis; RUPV and LUPV denote right and left upper pulmonary veins, respectively.
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