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ReviewEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2016

Towards personalized computational modelling of the fibrotic substrate for atrial arrhythmia.

Patrick M Boyle, Sohail Zahid, Natalia A Trayanova

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Review in Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Automated generation of ablation lesion masks: a unison of electro and optic flow mapping for persistent AF virtual cohorts.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026
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  6. 25 years of basic and translational science in EP Europace: novel insights into arrhythmia mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023
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  9. Characterizing the arrhythmogenic substrate in personalized models of atrial fibrillation: sensitivity to mesh resolution and pacing protocol in AF models.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2021
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  19. Arrhythmia dynamics in computational models of the atria following virtual ablation of re-entrant drivers.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patrick M BoyleDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, 208 Hackerman Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Sohail ZahidDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, 208 Hackerman Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Natalia A TrayanovaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, 208 Hackerman Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ntrayanova@jhu.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Virtual Electrophysiology LaboratoryDP1HL123271 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI TRAYANOVA, NATALIA A. · 2013 to 2017
$4.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS DP1 HL123271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

: Atrial arrhythmias involving a fibrotic substrate are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. In many cases, effective treatment of such rhythm disorders is severely hindered by a lack of mechanistic understanding relating features of fibrotic remodelling to dynamics of re-entrant arrhythmia. With the advent of clinical imaging modalities capable of resolving the unique fibrosis spatial pattern present in the atria of each individual patient, a promising new research trajectory has emerged in which personalized computational models are used to analyse mechanistic underpinnings of arrhythmia dynamics based on the distribution of fibrotic tissue. In this review, we first present findings that have yielded a robust and detailed biophysical representation of fibrotic substrate electrophysiological properties. Then, we summarize the results of several recent investigations seeking to use organ-scale models of the fibrotic human atria to derive new insights on mechanisms of arrhythmia perpetuation and to develop novel strategies for model-assisted individualized planning of catheter ablation procedures for atrial arrhythmias.

Indexed as

Atrial FunctionModels, CardiovascularPatient-Specific ModelingAction PotentialsAtrial FibrillationAtrial FlutterAtrial RemodelingCardiac Imaging TechniquesCatheter AblationElectrophysiologic Techniques, CardiacFibrosisHeart AtriaHeart RateHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalPredictive Value of TestsAtrial fibrillationAtrial flutterComputational modellingFibrotic remodelling

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PMID28011841
PMCPMC5841887
OpenAlexW2565453521

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