The pathologic basis of cardiac arrhythmias.
Besides the anatomoclinical correlates of disturbances in impulse formation and conduction, this article also considers the three mechanisms now known to underlie tachyarrhythmias: focally enhanced automaticity, triggered activity, and, in particular, reentry.
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