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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2023

The Atrioventricular Conduction Axis Revisited for the 21st Century.

Damian Sanchez-Quintana, Andrew C Cook, Yolanda Macias, Diane E Spicer, Robert H Anderson

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The Anatomy of the Atrioventricular Node.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025
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  5. The Atrioventricular Conduction Axis in Man and Mouse.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024
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  6. The clinical anatomy of the atrioventricular conduction axis.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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5 authors.

Damian Sanchez-QuintanaDepartment of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-8317
Andrew C CookInstitute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5079-7546
Yolanda MaciasDepartment of Medical and Surgical Therapeutics, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0594-8557
Diane E SpicerHeart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA.
Robert H AndersonBiosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5163-9021

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although first described in the final decade of the 19th century, the axis responsible for atrioventricular conduction has long been the source of multiple controversies. Some of these continue to reverberate. When first described by His, for example, many doubted the existence of the bundle we now name in his honour, while Kent suggested that multiple pathways crossed the atrioventricular junctions in the normal heart. It was Tawara who clarified the situation, although many of his key definitions have not universally been accepted. In key studies in the third decade of the 20th century, Mahaim then suggested the presence of ubiquitous connections that provided "paraspecific" pathways for atrioventricular conduction. In this review, we show the validity of these original investigations, based on our own experience with a large number of datasets from human hearts prepared by serial histological sectioning. Using our own reconstructions, we show how the atrioventricular conduction axis can be placed back within the heart. We emphasise that newly emerging techniques will be key in providing the resolution to map cellular detail to the gross evidence provided by the serial sections.

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