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slow pathway

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slow pathway
Cardiology An anomalous conduction pathway in the heart which has no known functions; the SP provides the antegrade limb of a reentry circuit in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia–AVNRT–the fast pathway provides the retrograde limb–the 'slow-fast' or common form of AVNRT; selective catheter ablation of the atrial end of the SP eliminates AVNRT with little risk of AV block


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Cryothermal ablation of the slow pathway for the elimination of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.
The patient subsequently underwent ablation of the slow pathway and was discharged on thyroxine.
13,14) Shea reported that IV lidocaine blocks 10% of the transmission of neural hyperactivity through each synapse, and thus it has more effect on the slow pathway (low-frequency tinnitus) than on the rapid pathway (high-frequency tinnitus).
 
 
 
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