Author:
Wit A. L.,Cranefield P. F.
Abstract
Mechanisms that cause reentry were defined in rings of tissue cut from jellyfish as early as 1906 by Mayer. The concepts were developed by Mines and Garrey during the next 10 years. Lewis then tried to demonstrate that reentry caused atrial flutter. Lewis, Garrey, and later Moe also proposed that atrial fibrillation was caused by reentry. Rosenblueth provided additional experimental evidence that reentry could cause atrial arrhythmias after crushing the intercaval bridge of atrial muscle. Recent studies by Allessie using microelectrodes have provided detailed evidence for reentry in atrial tissue. Mines in 1913 also proposed that reentry could occur in the AV node. Scherf then introduced the concept of functional longitudinal dissociation as a cause of return extrasystoles and this was later shown to happen in the node by Moe and his colleagues. Reentry can also occur between atria and ventricles utilizing accessory connecting pathways. Schmitt and Erlanger in 1913 were the first to do experiments which indicated that reentry can also occur in the ventricles. Subsequently it was shown that reentry can occur in Purkinje fiber bundles. Reentry in ventricular muscle may also cause some of the arrhythmias that occur after myocardial infarction.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
68 articles.
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