Mother rotors and fibrillatory conduction: a mechanism of atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and the major cardiac cause of stroke. Recent studies in patients with paroxysmal AF have shown that the arrhythmia is triggered by focal sources localized usually in one of the cardiac veins. However, in chronic AF, the prevai...

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