Immuno-Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Functional Electrical Connections Between Recipient and Donor Heart in Patients With Orthotopic Heart Transplantation Presenting With Atrial Arrhythmias

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2021 Apr;14(4):e008751. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.008751. Epub 2021 Mar 16.

Bengt Herweg^{1

2}, Madhan Nellaiyappan¹, Allan M Welter-Frost¹, Thanh Tran^{1

2}, George Mabry¹, Kathryn Weston¹, Catalina Tobón³, Javier Saiz⁴, Sami Noujaim^{1

5}, Mark W Weston^{1

2}

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (B.H., M.N., A.M.W.-F., T.T., G.M., K.W., S.N., M.W.W.), University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.
² Tampa General Hospital, Florida (B.H., T.T., M.W.W.).
³ Nanostructured Materials and Bio-modeling (MATBIOM), Universidad de Medellín, Colombia (C.T.).
⁴ Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (J.S.).
⁵ Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology (S.N.), University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.

Abstract

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Keywords: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; electrophysiology; heart transplantation; tachycardia.