The crossroads of inflammation, fibrosis, and arrhythmia following myocardial infarction

SDF Stuart, NM De Jesus, ML Lindsey… - Journal of molecular and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Optimal healing of damaged tissue following myocardial infarction (MI) requires a
coordinated cellular response that can be divided into three phases: inflammatory …

Substrate mapping for ventricular tachycardia: assumptions and misconceptions

ME Josephson, E Anter - JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2015 - jacc.org
Substrate mapping was developed to treat poorly tolerated infarct-related ventricular
tachycardias (VTs). This concept was based on 30-year-old data derived from surgical and …

[HTML][HTML] 2019 APHRS expert consensus statement on three‐dimensional mapping systems for tachycardia developed in collaboration with HRS, EHRA, and LAHRS

YH Kim, SA Chen, S Ernst, CE Guzman, S Han… - Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abbreviations: 3D, three-dimensional; AF, atrial fibrillation; AP, accessory pathway; ARVC,
arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; AT, atrial tachycardia; AVB, atrioventricular …

Pulsed field ablation of left ventricular myocardium in a swine infarct model

SI Im, S Higuchi, A Lee, C Stillson, E Buck… - Clinical …, 2022 - jacc.org
Background Pulsed field ablation (PFA) leads to cell death by irreversible electroporation.
There are limited data about PFA lesion characteristics in the ventricle, particularly in the …

High-resolution mapping of postinfarction reentrant ventricular tachycardia: electrophysiological characterization of the circuit

E Anter, CM Tschabrunn, AE Buxton, ME Josephson - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: In vivo description of ventricular tachycardia (VT) circuits is limited by
insufficient spatiotemporal resolution. We used a novel high-resolution mapping technology …

Personalized cardiac computational models: from clinical data to simulation of infarct-related ventricular tachycardia

A Lopez-Perez, R Sebastian, M Izquierdo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the chronic stage of myocardial infarction, a significant number of patients develop life-
threatening ventricular tachycardias (VT) due to the arrhythmogenic nature of the remodeled …

High-resolution mapping of ventricular scar: comparison between single and multielectrode catheters

CM Tschabrunn, S Roujol, NC Dorman… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Mapping resolution is influenced by electrode size and interelectrode
spacing. The aims of this study were to establish normal electrogram criteria for 1-mm …

Infarct-related ventricular tachycardia: redefining the electrophysiological substrate of the isthmus during sinus rhythm

E Anter, AG Kleber, M Rottmann, E Leshem… - JACC: Clinical …, 2018 - jacc.org
Objectives: In this study, the scientific objective was to characterize the electrophysiological
substrate of the ventricular tachycardia (VT) isthmus during sinus rhythm. Background: The …

Multicenter study of ischemic ventricular tachycardia ablation with decrement-evoked potential (DEEP) mapping with extra stimulus

A Porta-Sánchez, N Jackson, P Lukac… - JACC: Clinical …, 2018 - jacc.org
Objectives: The authors conducted a multicenter study of decrement-evoked potential
(DEEP)–based functional ventricular tachycardia (VT) substrate modification to evaluate if …

Combined endocardial-epicardial versus endocardial catheter ablation alone for ventricular tachycardia in structural heart disease: a systematic review and meta …

J Romero, RC Cerrud-Rodriguez, L Di Biase… - JACC: Clinical …, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to determine whether combined endocardial-epicardial (endo-
epi) ablation was superior to endocardial only ablation in patients with scar-related …