Rotors during AF: Drivers or bystanders?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 63-65

  Allessie, Maurits ^a   De Groot, Natasja ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MICROELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; HUMANS;

EID: 84892647997     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht370     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Lee G, Kumar S, Teh A, Madry A, Larobina M, Goldblatt J, Brown R, Atkinson V, Moten S, Morton JB, Sanders P, Kistler PM, Kalman J. Epicardial wave mapping in human long-lasting persistent atrial fibrillation. Transient rotational circuits, complex wavefronts, and disorganized activity. Eur Heart J; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht267. Published online ahead of print 8 August 2013.
2. Allessie MA, de Groot NMS, Houben RPM, Schotten U, Boersma E, Smeets JL, Crijns HJ. The electropathological substrate of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with structural heart disease: longitudinal dissociation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol 2010;3:606-615.
3. DeGrootNMS, Houben RPM, Smeets JL, Boersma E, Schotten U, Schalij MJ, Crijns HJ, Allessie MA. The electropathological substrate of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with structural heart disease: epicardial breakthrough. Circulation 2010;122:1674-1682.
4. Allessie MA, Bonke FIM, Schopman FJG. Circus movement in rabbit atrial muscle as a mechanism of tachycardia. III. The 'leading circle' concept: a new model of circus movement in cardiac tissue without the involvement of an anatomic obstacle. Circ Res 1977;41:9-18.
5. Narayan SM, Krummen DE, Shivkumar K, Clopton P, Rappel WJ, Miller JM. Treatment of atrial fibrillation by the ablation of localized sources:CONFIRM (Conventional Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation With or Without Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation) trial. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012;60:628-36.
6. Narayan SM, Krummen DE, Rappel W-J. Clinical mapping approach to diagnose electrical rotors and focal impulse sources for human atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2012;23:447-454.
7. Haissaguerre M, Hocini M, Shah AJ, Derval N, Sacher F, Jais P, Dubois R. Noninvasive panoramic mapping of human atrial fibrillation mechanism: a feasibility report. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2013;24;711-717.