Objective: To assess heart rhythm and predictive factors associated with sinus rhythm after one year in patients with rheumatic valve disease undergoing concomitant surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Operative mortality, survival and occurrence of stroke after one year were also evaluated. Methods: Retrospective longitudinal observational study of 103 patients undergoing rheumatic mit...

AIMS Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common rhythm disorder. Because of the high recurrence rate of AF after cardioversion and because of potential side effects of electrical cardioversion, it is clinically important to predict persistence of sinus rhythm after electrical cardioversion before it is attempted. The aim of our study was the development of a mathematical model by "genetic" pro...

Sinus Rhythm To the Editor: The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) investigators recently presented their analysis of the relationship between cardiac rhythm, treatment, and survival from the original AFFIRM study.1 The investigators conclude that the use of warfarin and the presence of sinus rhythm were important determinants of survival. The use of antia...

Sixteen patients presenting on 21 occasions with atrial flutter in association with complex congenital heart disease were treated by intracardiac stimulation techniques combined with activation mapping. Nineteen episodes of atrial flutter were successfully converted to sinus rhythm. In the remaining two episodes atrial fibrillation was induced with spontaneous conversion to sinus rhythm within ...

The selective administration of dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine and isoproterenol, into the coronary sinus region of the dog heart produced so-called coronary sinus rhythm, indicating the appearance of deep inverted P waves and frequently accompanied by an acceleration of pacemaker activity of the coronary sinus region. These effects of catecholamines were not influenced by atropine and t...

A patient with transient, intermittent, complete heart block had periods of asystole, accompanied by syncope, whenever his cardiac rhythm shifted spontaneously from regular sinus rhythm to complete auriculoventricular dissociation. Similar clinical and electrocardiographic findings were produced by carotid sinus pressure when there was regular sinus rhythm. During the periods of heart block car...

BACKGROUND Direct current cardioversion (DCCV) can restore sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but the long term efficacy is poor. Pharmacological therapies may improve the initial success of the procedure, but whether long term maintenance of sinus rhythm can be improved is unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate which pharmacotherapies, including antiarrhythmic and ...

UNLABELLED Automatic mode switching (AMS) function in dual chamber pacemakers depends on adequate detection of atrial tachyarrhythmias. There are few data on showing how intra-operative atrial signal amplititude during sinus rhythm can predict atrial tachyarrhythmias after pacemaker implantation. In 43 patients undergoing DDDR pacemaker implantation and atrioventricular nodal ablation for the t...

A substantial portion of sinus arrhythmia in conscious humans appears to be caused by the CO2-dependent central respiratory rhythm. Under some circumstances, therefore, sinus arrhythmia might indicate the presence of the central respiratory rhythm. Humans can voluntarily modify their central respiratory rhythm (e.g., by pacing breathing or by delaying or advancing breaths), but it is not clear ...

Post-stroke atrial fibrillation has been frequently reported especially in the patients with right insular infarct as an evidence of cerebrogenic mechanism affecting on cardiac rhythm. However, conversion to normal sinus rhythm after stroke in patients who had atrial fibrillation has not been reported. A 88-year-old men who had untreated atrial fibrillation was admitted to hospital due to left ...