Critical appraisal of technologies to assess electrical activity during atrial fibrillation: A position paper from the European heart rhythm association and European …

NMS De Groot, D Shah, PM Boyle, E Anter… - EP …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We aim to provide a critical appraisal of basic concepts underlying signal recording and
processing technologies applied for (i) atrial fibrillation (AF) mapping to unravel AF …

Validation and opportunities of electrocardiographic imaging: from technical achievements to clinical applications

M Cluitmans, DH Brooks, R MacLeod, O Dössel… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) reconstructs the electrical activity of the heart from a
dense array of body-surface electrocardiograms and a patient-specific heart-torso geometry …

Pathophysiology of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation: rotors, foci and fibrosis

DH Lau, D Linz, U Schotten, R Mahajan… - Heart, Lung and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation (AF)
have further underscored the complex pathophysiological basis of the arrhythmia. It has …

Atrial fibrillation mechanisms and implications for catheter ablation

G Cheniti, K Vlachos, T Pambrun, D Hooks… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
AF is a heterogeneous rhythm disorder that is related to a wide spectrum of etiologies and
has broad clinical presentations. Mechanisms underlying AF are complex and remain …

Relationship between fibrosis detected on late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance and re-entrant activity assessed with electrocardiographic imaging …

H Cochet, R Dubois, S Yamashita, N Al Jefairi… - JACC: Clinical …, 2018 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to assess the relationship between fibrosis and re-entrant
activity in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Background: The mechanisms involved in …

Fibrosis and atrial fibrillation: computerized and optical mapping: a view into the human atria at submillimeter resolution

BJ Hansen, J Zhao, VV Fedorov - JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2017 - jacc.org
Recent studies strongly suggest that the majority of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with
diagnosed or subclinical cardiac diseases have established or even pre-existing fibrotic …

Demystifying rotors and their place in clinical translation of atrial fibrillation mechanisms

S Nattel, F Xiong, M Aguilar - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice,
remains challenging. Improved understanding of underlying mechanisms is needed to …

Human atrial fibrillation drivers resolved with integrated functional and structural imaging to benefit clinical mapping

BJ Hansen, J Zhao, N Li, A Zolotarev… - JACC: Clinical …, 2018 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to improve atrial fibrillation (AF) driver identification by
integrating clinical multielectrode mapping with driver fingerprints defined by high-resolution …

Optical mapping-validated machine learning improves atrial fibrillation driver detection by multi-electrode mapping

AM Zolotarev, BJ Hansen, EA Ivanova… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be maintained by localized intramural reentrant
drivers. However, AF driver detection by clinical surface-only multielectrode mapping (MEM) …

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 …