It has become progressively evident that increases in sympathetic activity favour the onset of malignant cardiac arrhythmias, particularly when acting in a diseased myocardium In this chapter two conditions that involve in a causal relationship the sympathetic nervous system and'life-threatening arrhythmias will be examined: acute myocardial ischaemia and the idiopathic long Q-T syndrome.

Adrenergic Arrhythmogenesis and The Long QT syndrome

SCHWARTZ, PETER;PRIORI, SILVIA GIULIANA
1989-01-01

Abstract

It has become progressively evident that increases in sympathetic activity favour the onset of malignant cardiac arrhythmias, particularly when acting in a diseased myocardium In this chapter two conditions that involve in a causal relationship the sympathetic nervous system and'life-threatening arrhythmias will be examined: acute myocardial ischaemia and the idiopathic long Q-T syndrome.
1989
HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY
Vaughan-Williams EM and Campbell TJ
Cardiovascular & Hematology Research covers all levels of investigation into the normal and pathogenic functions of the heart, vasculature, and soluble blood components. Cell biology of vascular tissue and formed elements of blood, biochemical regulation of thrombosis, therapeutic strategies for treatment of cardiac and vascular diseases are also considered. Resources on hematologic oncology are excluded and are placed in the Oncogenesis & Cancer Research category.
Inglese
Internazionale
STAMPA
519
543
Springer-Verlag
Berlin
GERMANIA
Adrenergic Arrhythmogenesis; The Long QT Syndrome
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2
268
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Schwartz, Peter; Priori, SILVIA GIULIANA
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