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 …

Calcium signaling and cardiac arrhythmias

AP Landstrom, D Dobrev, XHT Wehrens - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
There has been a significant progress in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms by
which calcium (Ca2+) ions mediate various types of cardiac arrhythmias. A growing list of …

Atrial myopathy

MJ Shen, R Arora, J Jalife - JACC: Basic to Translational Science, 2019 - jacc.org
This paper discusses the evolving concept of atrial myopathy by presenting how it develops
and how it affects the properties of the atria. It also reviews the complex relationships among …

Atrial remodeling, fibrosis, and atrial fibrillation

J Jalife, K Kaur - Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
The fundamental mechanisms governing the perpetuation of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most
common arrhythmia seen in clinical practice, are poorly understood, which explains in part …

Cardiac ryanodine receptor calcium release deficiency syndrome

B Sun, J Yao, M Ni, J Wei, X Zhong, W Guo… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) gain-of-function mutations cause catecholaminergic
polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, a condition characterized by prominent ventricular …

Guidelines for assessment of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in small animals

CM Ripplinger, AV Glukhov, MW Kay… - American Journal …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although
recent advances in cell-based models, including human-induced pluripotent stem cell …

Electromechanical vortex filaments during cardiac fibrillation

J Christoph, M Chebbok, C Richter… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The self-organized dynamics of vortex-like rotating waves, which are also known as scroll
waves, are the basis of the formation of complex spatiotemporal patterns in many excitable …

Interleukin-6-Mediated-Ca2+ Handling Abnormalities Contributes to Atrial Fibrillation in Sterile Pericarditis Rats

J Liao, S Zhang, S Yang, Y Lu, K Lu, Y Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pre-existing Ca2+ handling abnormalities constitute the arrhythmogenic substrate in
patients developing postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF), a common complication after …

Cardiac alternans: from bedside to bench and back

Z Qu, JN Weiss - Circulation research, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiac alternans arises from dynamical instabilities in the electrical and calcium cycling
systems of the heart, and often precedes ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death …

Murine electrophysiological models of cardiac arrhythmogenesis

CLH Huang - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiac arrhythmias can follow disruption of the normal cellular electrophysiological
processes underlying excitable activity and their tissue propagation as coherent wavefronts …