How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart
The atrioventricular, or AV, node is the second key area of the heart’s electrical wiring. The atrioventricular node takes ...
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Atrioventricular Node (AV Node)
The atrioventricular node (AV Node) is a bundle of conduction cells that regulate the communication of atrial electrical activity ... or complete heart block known as third degree heart block.
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Dual Sinus Nodes - Heart Transplant ECG
When the patient's heart was removed ... since the surgical anastomotic site creates an electrical block not allowing the native SA node to depolarize the transplanted atrium and thus it is ...
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Focal modification of electrical conduction in the heart by viral gene transfer
Figure 2: Reduction in heart rate during atrial fibrillation after ... β-gal expression in the AV node was quantified by counting 100 cells in randomly chosen high-power fields of microscopic ...