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Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry

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There have been remarkable strides and leaps in both the diagnostic elements, mechanisms, and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in these last few decades. Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT) with or without the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome ranks high among these maladies that witnessed a therapeutic revolution, perhaps like no other. In this chapter the author reviews the history of PSVT, and details the commonest variety of PSVT: AV nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), describing its incidence, manifestations and mechanisms, the case for, and against dual-pathway physiology, and an unifying concept linking the slow and fast pathways.

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Gomes, J.A. (2020). Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry. In: Heart Rhythm Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45066-3_6

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