2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

H Calkins, G Hindricks, R Cappato, YH Kim… - Ep …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
AFL atrial flutter AH arterial hypertension ANS autonomic nervous system APD action
potential duration ARREST-AF Aggressive Risk Factor Reduction Study for Atrial Fibrillation …

Electrocardiographic imaging for atrial fibrillation: a perspective from computer models and animal experiments to clinical value

J Salinet, R Molero, FS Schlindwein, J Karel… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) is a technique to reconstruct non-invasively the
electrical activity on the heart surface from body-surface potential recordings and geometric …

Atrial fibrillation driven by micro-anatomic intramural re-entry revealed by simultaneous sub-epicardial and sub-endocardial optical mapping in explanted human …

BJ Hansen, J Zhao, TA Csepe, BT Moore… - European heart …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Aims The complex architecture of the human atria may create physical substrates for
sustained re-entry to drive atrial fibrillation (AF). The existence of sustained, anatomically …

Body surface potential mapping: contemporary applications and future perspectives

J Bergquist, L Rupp, B Zenger, J Brundage, A Busatto… - Hearts, 2021 - mdpi.com
Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a noninvasive modality to assess cardiac
bioelectric activity with a rich history of practical applications for both research and clinical …

Body surface localization of left and right atrial high-frequency rotors in atrial fibrillation patients: a clinical-computational study

M Rodrigo, MS Guillem, AM Climent… - Heart rhythm, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Ablation is an effective therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in which an
electrical driver can be identified. Objective The aim of this study was to present and discuss …

Atrial fibrillation therapy now and in the future: drugs, biologicals, and ablation

CE Woods, J Olgin - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a complex disease with multiple inter-relating causes culminating in
rapid, seemingly disorganized atrial activation. Therapy targeting AF is rapidly changing and …

Adenosine-induced atrial fibrillation: localized reentrant drivers in lateral right atria due to heterogeneous expression of adenosine A1 receptors and GIRK4 subunits …

N Li, TA Csepe, BJ Hansen, LV Sul… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Adenosine provokes atrial fibrillation (AF) with a higher activation frequency in
right atria (RA) versus left atria (LA) in patients, but the underlying molecular and functional …

Presence and stability of rotors in atrial fibrillation: evidence and therapeutic implications

MS Guillem, AM Climent, M Rodrigo… - Cardiovascular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rotor-guided ablation has opened new perspectives into the therapy of atrial fibrillation (AF).
Analysis of the spatio-temporal cardiac excitation patterns in the frequency and phase …

Technical considerations on phase mapping for identification of atrial reentrant activity in direct-and inverse-computed electrograms

M Rodrigo, AM Climent, A Liberos… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Phase mapping has become a broadly used technique to identify atrial
reentrant circuits for ablative therapy guidance. This work studies the phase mapping …

Multimodal examination of atrial fibrillation substrate: correlation of left atrial bipolar voltage using multi-electrode fast automated mapping, point-by-point mapping …

T Zghaib, A Keramati, J Chrispin, D Huang… - JACC: Clinical …, 2018 - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine atrial fibrillation (AF) substrate using
different modalities (point-by-point [PBP], fast anatomic mapping [FAM], and late gadolinium …