Heterogeneous atrial wall thickness and stretch promote scroll waves anchoring during atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-57

  Yamazaki, Masatoshi ^a,b   Mironov, Sergey ^a   Taravant, Clément ^a   Brec, Julien ^a   Vaquero, Luis M ^c   Bandaru, Krishna ^a   Avula, Uma Mahesh R ^a   Honjo, Haruo ^b   Kodama, Itsuo ^b   Berenfeld, Omer ^a   Kalifa, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D atrial structure; Atrial dilatation; Atrial fibrillation; Remodelling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATRIAL WALL STRETCH; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOSCOPY; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TACHYCARDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERFUSION; PRESSURE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84859070771     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvr357     Document Type: Article

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