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Atrial anatomy plays a role in heart physiology by controlling, to an extent, heart rate, ventricular filling and myocardial contractility. Atrial fibrillation disrupts atrial functional anatomy by abolishing sinus node chronotropic function, atrial contraction, and by impairing AV nodal physiology.
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Guiraudon, G.M., Guiraudon, C.M. (1992). Atrial Functional Anatomy. In: Kingma, J.H., van Hemel, N.M., Lie, K.I. (eds) Atrial Fibrillation, a Treatable Disease?. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1816-3_2
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