Human ventricular fibrillation: Wandering wavelets, mother rotors, or both?

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 530-532

  Ideker, Raymond E ^a   Rogers, Jack M ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Editorials; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODEL; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIGS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PERIODICITY; SHEEP; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33746885867     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.644765     Document Type: Editorial

References (19)

1. Moe GK. On the multiple wavelet hypothesis of atrial fibrillation. Arch Int Pharmacodyn. 1962;140:183-187.
2. Lewis T. The Mechanism and Graphic Registration of the Heart Beat. 3rd ed. London, United Kingdom: Shaw and Sons, Ltd; 1925.
3. Gurvich NL. The Main Principles of Cardiac Defibrillation [in Russian]. Moscow, Russia: Medicina; 1975.
4. Jalife J. Ventricular fibrillation: mechanisms of initiation and maintenance. Annu Rev Physiol. 2000;62:25-50.
5. Zaitsev AV, Berenfeld O, Mironov SF, Jalife J, Pertsov AM. Distribution of excitation frequencies on the epicardial and endocardial surfaces of fibrillating ventricular wall of the sheep heart. Circ Res. 2000;86:408-417.
6. Samie FH, Berenfeld O, Anumonwo J, Mironov SF, Udassi S, Beaumont J, Taffet S, Pertsov AM, Jalife J. Rectification of the background potassium current: a determinant of rotor dynamics in ventricular fibrillation. Circ Res. 2001;89:1216-1223.
7. Choi BR, Nho W, Liu T, Salama G. Life span of ventricular fibrillation frequencies. Circ Res. 2002;91:339-345.
8. Rogers JM, Huang J, Melnick SB, Ideker RE. Sustained reentry in the left ventricle of fibrillating pig hearts. Circ Res. 2003;92:539-545.
9. Kay MW, Walcott GP, Gladden JD, Melnick SB, Rogers JM. Lifetimes of epicardial rotors in panoramic optical maps of fibrillating swine ventricles. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. April 21, 2006. DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00276.2006. Available at: http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/00276.2006v1. Accessed July 25, 2006.
10. Liu YB, Pak HN, Lamp ST, Okuyama Y, Hayashi H, Wu TJ, Weiss JN, Chen PS, Lin SF. Co-existence of two types of ventricular fibrillation during acute regional ischemia in rabbit ventricles. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2004;15:1433-1440.
11. Wu TJ, Lin SF, Baher A, Qu Z, Garfinkel A, Weiss JN, Ting CT, Chen P-S. Mother rotors and the mechanisms of D600-induced type 2 ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 2004;110:2110 -2118.
12. Chen PS, Wu TJ, Ting CT, Karagueuzian HS, Garfinkel A, Lin SF, Weiss JN. A tale of two fibrillations. Circulation. 2003;108:2298-2303.
13. Everett TH 4th, Wilson EE, Foreman S, Olgin JE. Mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation in canine models of congestive heart failure and ischemia assessed by in vivo noncontact mapping. Circulation. 2005;112:1532-1541.
14. Walcott GP, Kay GN, Plumb VJ, Smith WM, Rogers JM, Epstein AE, Ideker RE. Endocardial wave front organization during ventricular fibrillation in humans. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002;39:109-115.
15. Nanthakumar K, Walcott GP, Melnick SB, Rogers JM, Kay MW, Smith WM, Ideker RE, Holman W. Epicardial organization of human ventricular fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2004;1:14-23.
16. Wu TJ, Ong JJ, Hwang C, Lee JJ, Fishbein MC, Czer L, Trento A, Blanche C, Kass RM, Mandel WJ, Karagueuzian HS, Chen PS. Characteristics of wave fronts during ventricular fibrillation in human hearts with dilated cardiomyopathy: role of increased fibrosis in the generation of reentry. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1998;32:187-196.
17. Nash MP, Mourad A, Clayton RH, Sutton PM, Bradley CP, Hayward M, Paterson DJ, Taggart P. Evidence for multiple mechanisms in human ventricular fibrillation. Circulation. 2006;114:536-542.
18. Smith WM, Ideker RE. Computer techniques for epicardial and endocardial mapping. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 1983;26:15-32.
19. Masrani K, Cowley C, Bekheit S, el-Sherif N. Recurrent syncope for over a decade due to idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. Chest. 1994;106:1601-1603.