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ArticleComputing in cardiology2019

Identifying Potential Re-Entrant Circuit Locations From Atrial Fibre Maps.

Max Falkenberg, David Hickey, Louie Terrill, Alberto Ciacci, Nicholas S Peters, Kim Christensen

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Article in Computing in cardiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Max Falkenberg *Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
David Hickey *Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Louie Terrill *Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Alberto CiacciBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Nicholas S PetersElectroCardioMaths Programme, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Kim ChristensenBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/15/25/31423British Heart Foundation PG/16/17/32069British Heart Foundation RG/16/3/32175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Re-entrant circuits have been identified as potential drivers of atrial fibrillation (AF). In this paper, we develop a novel computational framework for finding the locations of re-entrant circuits from high resolution fibre orientation data. The technique follows a statistical approach whereby we generate continuous fibre tracts across the tissue and couple adjacent fibres stochastically if they are within a given distance of each other. By varying the connection distance, we identify which regions are most susceptible to forming re-entrant circuits if muscle fibres are uncoupled, through the action of fibrosis or otherwise. Our results highlight the sleeves of the pulmonary veins, the posterior left atrium and the left atrial appendage as the regions most susceptible to re-entrant circuit formation. This is consistent with known risk locations in clinical AF. If the model can be personalised for individual patients undergoing ablation, future versions may be able to suggest suitable ablation targets.

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PMID32514409
PMCPMC7279949
OpenAlexW2999113091

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