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Of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting 30% develop atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter. To determine if AF is initiated from the right or left atrium, atrial electrograms were continuously recorded in patients undergoing this procedure. In addition, to study whether the prematurity index of premature atrial contractions (PACs) eliciting AF differs from PACs not provoking AF, the distribution of prematurity indices was evaluated from R-R interval analysis. The right and left atrial recording electrodes were first activated by the ectopic beat provoking AF in six and eight patients, respectively. The prematurity index of the PAC eliciting AF was located in the middle (in half of the patients) or to the left of the median distribution of prematurity indices. The variability in activation of the atrial electrodes suggests that the PAC provoking AF can have its origin in the right, the septal, or the left region of the atrium. The initiation of AF depends on the prematurity index of the PAC.
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E H Christiansen, and
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C J Jacobsen, and
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April 2017,
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December 1990,
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