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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
卷 52, 期 15, 页码 1222-1230出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.07.012
关键词
atrial fibrillation; human; action potential duration; conduction velocity; electrical restitution; monophasic action potentials; electrical remodeling; alternans
资金
- National Institutes of Health [HL70529, HL83359]
- American College of Cardiology Merck Fellowship
Objectives The authors sought to study mechanisms to explain why single premature atrial complexes (PACs) from the pulmonary veins (PVs) may initiate human atrial fibrillation (AF). Background Theoretically, single PACs may initiate AF if the rate response of action potential duration (APD) restitution has a slope > 1. However, human left atrial APD restitution and its relationship to AF have not been studied. We hypothesized that an APD restitution slope > 1 near PVs explains the initiation of clinical AF. Methods We studied 27 patients with paroxysmal and persistent (n = 13) AF. We advanced monophasic action potential catheters transseptally to superior PVs. Restitution was plotted as APD of progressively early PACs against their diastolic interval (DI) from prior beats. Activation time restitution was measured using the time from the pacing artifact to each PAC. Results Compared with paroxysmal AF, patients with persistent AF had shorter left atrial APD and effective refractory period (p = 0.01). In paroxysmal AF, maximum left atrial APD restitution slope was 1.5 +/- 0.4; and 12 of 13 patients had slope > 1 (p < 0.001). In persistent AF, PACs encountered prolonged activation for a wider range of beats than in paroxysmal AF (p = 0.01), which prolonged DI and flattened APD restitution (slope 0.7 +/- 0.2; p < 0.001); no patient had APD restitution slope > 1. A single PAC produced AF in 5 patients; in all, an APD restitution slope > 1 caused extreme APD oscillations after the PAC, then AF. Conclusions In patients with paroxysmal AF, maximum APD restitution slope > 1 near the PVs enables single PACs to initiate AF. However, patients with persistent AF show marked dynamic activation delay near PVs that flattens APD restitution. Studies should determine how regional APD and conduction dynamics contribute to the substrates of persistent AF.
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