What have we learned from mathematical models of defibrillation and postshock arrhythmogenesis? Application of bidomain simulations

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1232-1235

  Trayanova, Natalia ^a   Plank, Gernot ^b   Rodríguez, Blanca ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART STIMULATION; ION CURRENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 33749052704     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.04.015     Document Type: Note

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