AURICULAR FIBRILLATION.

Lone auricular fibrillation.

Auricular Fibrillation after Aspirin

S = support of heart afforded by the pericardium T = tone of muscle. The support of the pericardium is due to the negative pressure in the pericardial cavity which I have shown is present in health. This negative pressure causes a suction action which keeps the pericardium right up against the heart save for the thin layer of pericardial fluid so necessary for lubrication. F varies directly wit...

Oesophageal Electrocardiograms in Auricular Fibrillation.

A critical study of electrical events occurring in the posterior portions of the human heart has been made possible by the use of aesophageal leads in clinical electrocardiography (Cremer, 1906; Lieberson and Liberson, 1934; Luisada, 1935; Brown, 1936a, 1936b; Hamilton and Nyboer, 1938; Spiihler, 1938; Nyboer, 1939; Deglaude and Laubry, 1939). The cesophagus lies close to the posterior surface ...

Auricular Fibrillation and Mitral Stenosis

The infrequent association of bacterial endocarditis with auricular fibrillation and with severe mitral stenosis is noted. The relevant literature is reviewed. Eighty-two cases of bacterial endocarditis superimposed on rheumatic heart disease and 47 examples of bacterial endocarditis without underlying rheumatic valvulitis are studied. Auricular fibrillation and severe mitral stenosis occurred ...

The Mechanism of Auricular Flutter and Auricular Fibrillation

A DISCUSSION of the mechaniism of auricular flutter or fibrillation requires first a precise definition of what is meant by those terms. They were coined originally to designate more or less characteristic clinical syndromes, but they are now applied loosely to a heterogeneous group of experimental results that may bear only a superficial resemblance to those syndromes. Thus, it is possible to ...