Structural contributions to fibrillatory rotors in a patient-derived computational model of the atria

Europace

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages iv3-iv10

  Gonzales, Matthew J ^a   Vincent, Kevin P ^a   Rappel, Wouter Jan ^b   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^b,c,d   McCulloch, Andrew D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Computational modelling; FIRM; Focal impulse and rotor mapping; Phase mapping; Rotors

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBRILLATORY ROTOR; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBROSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; REFRACTORY PERIOD; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, RIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FIBROSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84965186011     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu251     Document Type: Article

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