The atrioventricular node (AV Node) is a bundle of conduction cells that regulate the communication of atrial electrical activity with ventricular electrical activity. The AV node has a long ...

The atrioventricular node (AVN) has mystified generations of investigators over the last century and continues today to be at the epicenter of debates among anatomists, experimentalists ...

AV node ablation destroys this connection stopping any atrial activity from reaching the ventricle. This results in the intrinsic pacemaker of the heart shifting from the atria to the ventricles.

Thomas Kurian, M.D.; Christina Ambrosi, M.Sc.; William Hucker, M.D., Ph.D.; Vadim V. Fedorov, Ph.D.; Igor R. Efimov, Ph.D. While not extensively evaluated in these ...