Efferent vagal innervation of the canine atria and sinus and atrioventricular nodes. The third fat pad

Circulation
C W ChiouD P Zipes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the functional pathways of efferent vagal innervation to the atrial myocardium and sinus and atrioventricular (AV) nodes. Using vagally induced atrial effective refractory period shortening, slowing of spontaneous sinus rate, and prolongation of AV nodal conduction time as end points of vagal effects, we determined the actions of phenol and epicardial radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) applied to different sites at or near the atrial myocardium to inhibit these responses. We found that efferent vagal fibers to the atria are located both subepicardially and intramurally or subendocardially. Most efferent vagal fibers to the atria appear to travel through a newly described fat pad located between the medial superior vena cava and aortic root (SVC-Ao fat pad), superior to the right pulmonary artery, and then project onto two previously noted fat pads at the inferior vena cava-left atrial junction (IVC-LA fat pad) and the right pulmonary vein-atrial junction (RPV fat pad) and to both atria. A few vagal fibers may bypass the SVC-Ao fat pad and go directly to the IVC-LA or RPV fat pad and then innervate the atrial myocardium. Vagal fibers to the sinus and AV nodes also converge at the...Continue Reading

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