Patient-specific modeling of atrial fibrosis increases the accuracy of sinus rhythm simulations and may explain maintenance of atrial fibrillation

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 324-328

  Krueger, Martin W ^a,c   Rhode, Kawal S ^b   O'Neill, Mark D ^b   Rinaldi, C Aldo ^b   Gill, Jaswinder ^b   Razavi, Reza ^b   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Doessel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ABB AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial fibrosis; Computational modeling; Late enhance MRI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINUS RHYTHM; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899644251     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: 15328430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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