The digital journey: 25 years of digital development in electrophysiology from an Europace perspective

E Svennberg, EG Caiani, N Bruining, L Desteghe… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims Over the past 25 years there has been a substantial development in the field of digital
electrophysiology (EP) and in parallel a substantial increase in publications on digital …

Electrographic flow mapping for atrial fibrillation: theoretical basis and preliminary observations

DE Haines, MH Kong, P Ruppersberg… - Journal of Interventional …, 2023 - Springer
Ablation strategies remain poorly defined for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with
recurrence despite intact pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). As the ability to perform durable PVI …

Quantifying a spectrum of clinical response in atrial tachyarrhythmias using spatiotemporal synchronization of electrograms

P Ganesan, B Deb, R Feng, M Rodrigo… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims There is a clinical spectrum for atrial tachyarrhythmias wherein most patients with atrial
tachycardia (AT) and some with atrial fibrillation (AF) respond to ablation, while others do …

DG-Mapping: a novel software package for the analysis of any type of reentry and focal activation of simulated, experimental or clinical data of cardiac arrhythmia

E Van Nieuwenhuyse, S Hendrickx, RV Abeele… - Medical & Biological …, 2022 - Springer
In this work, we present the release of a novel easy to use software package called DGM or
Directed-Graph-Mapping. DGM can automatically analyze any type of arrhythmia to find …

Stochastic termination of spiral wave dynamics in cardiac tissue

WJ Rappel, DE Krummen, T Baykaner… - Frontiers in network …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rotating spiral waves are self-organized features in spatially extended excitable media and
may play an important role in cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AF). In …

Mapping atrial fibrillation: An overview of potential mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation

C Kowalewski - Herz, 2021 - Springer
Mechanisms sustaining atrial fibrillation are yet to be clarified. This article focuses on
milestones in the theory of atrial fibrillation and addresses the different leading hypotheses …

Diverse activation patterns during persistent atrial fibrillation by noncontact charge‐density mapping of human atrium

R Shi, Z Chen, C Butcher, JAB Zaman… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Global simultaneous recording of atrial activation during atrial fibrillation (AF)
can elucidate underlying mechanisms contributing to AF maintenance. A better …

[HTML][HTML] Fractional generalization of entropy improves the characterization of rotors in simulated atrial fibrillation

JP Ugarte, JAT Machado, C Tobón - Applied Mathematics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Atrial fibrillation (AF) underlies disordered spatiotemporal electrical activity, that increases in
complexity with the persistence of the arrhythmia. It has been hypothesized that a specific …

Re-evaluating the multiple wavelet hypothesis for atrial fibrillation

P Ganesan, SM Narayan - Heart rhythm, 2020 - heartrhythmjournal.com
There continues to be great interest in better defining mechanisms of atrial fibrillation (AF) to
improve therapy and guide ablation beyond pulmonary vein isolation. The multiple wavelet …

Combined atrial fibrillation ablation and balloon mitral commissurotomy in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis

F Díez‐Delhoyo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) is usually not considered in patients with
rheumatic mitral stenosis (RMS). We analyzed the results of a combined procedure of AF …