PMID: 8945085Nov 1, 1996Paper

Regional disparities of endocardial atrial activation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : PACE
P JaïsJ Clémenty

Abstract

Previous experimental data suggest that atrial activity is homogeneously distributed during paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AFib). Little is known about this in human paroxysmal AFib. Twenty-five men and two women (mean age 49 +/- 11 years; five with structural heart disease) with paroxysmal AFib for a mean 5 +/- 6.2 years despite the use of a mean of 3.6 +/- 1.7 antiarrhythmic drugs underwent atrial mapping. The right atrium was divided into four regions: posterior (intercaval), lateral, anterior, and septal. A 14-pole catheter was positioned to assess complex electrical activity defined as the duration of continuous electrical activity or electrograms with FF intervals < 100 ms for 60 seconds (expressed as percentage of time). In addition, the left atrium (divided into three regions: posterior, anterior, and septal) was explored in 12 patients with a multipolar catheter. The complex electrical activity time between all the regions explored was significantly different. In the right atrium, the septal (74% +/- 32%; P = 0.02) and the posterior (63% +/- 32%; P = 0.04) areas were significantly more disorganized than the lateral (22% +/-23%) and anterior (21% +/- 26%) regions. In the left atrium, complex electrical activity was pre...Continue Reading

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