Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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505777 | Computers in Biology and Medicine | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF) are not completely understood yet. It has been demonstrated that AF can be modulated by several cardiac diseases, the autonomic nervous system and even drugs with purportedly no antiarrhythmic properties. We evaluated the effects of a widely used anaesthetic agent (propofol) in the fibrillation patterns. Spectral analysis was performed over atrial electrograms at baseline and immediately after a propofol bolus. Only after performing principal component analysis (PCA), we were able to significantly detect that propofol slows AF.
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Authors
R. Cervigón, J. Moreno, F. Castells, J. Mateo, C. Sánchez, J. Pérez-Villacastín, J. Millet,