ReviewArrhythmia & electrophysiology review2020
Challenges Associated with Interpreting Mechanisms of AF.
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- 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 · 2026Article
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- "Pharmacological" analysis of atrial fibrillation maintenance mechanism: reentry, wavelets, or focal?Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- Multi-modal integration of MRI and global chamber charge density mapping for the evaluation of atrial fibrillation.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Leveraging 3D Atrial Geometry for the Evaluation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Recent Advances in the Management of Non-rheumatic Atrial Fibrillation: A Comprehensive Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Quantifying a spectrum of clinical response in atrial tachyarrhythmias using spatiotemporal synchronization of electrograms.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 · 2023Article
- A computational modeling framework for pre-clinical evaluation of cardiac mapping systems.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Global Substrate Mapping and Targeted Ablation with Novel Gold-tip Catheter inArrhythmia & electrophysiology review · 2022Review
- Reconceptualising Atrial Fibrillation Using Renewal Theory: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Atrial Fibrillation Dynamics.Arrhythmia & electrophysiology review · 2021Review
- Directed graph mapping exceeds phase mapping in discriminating true and false rotors detected with a basket catheter in a complex in-silico excitation pattern.Computers in biology and medicine · 2021Article
- Rotor Localization and Phase Mapping of Cardiac Excitation Waves Using Deep Neural Networks.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Pro-Arrhythmic Signaling of Thyroid Hormones and Its Relevance in Subclinical Hyperthyroidism.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Determining optimal treatment strategies for complex arrhythmogenesis in AF is confounded by the lack of consensus regarding the mechanisms causing AF. Studies report different mechanisms for AF, ranging from hierarchical drivers to anarchical multiple activation wavelets. Differences in the assessment of AF mechanisms are likely due to AF being recorded across diverse models using different investigational tools, spatial scales and clinical populations. The authors review different AF mechanisms, including anatomical and functional re-entry, hierarchical drivers and anarchical multiple wavelets. They then describe different cardiac mapping techniques and analysis tools, including activation mapping, phase mapping and fibrosis identification. They explain and review different data challenges, including differences between recording devices in spatial and temporal resolutions, spatial coverage and recording surface, and report clinical outcomes using different data modalities. They suggest future research directions for investigating the mechanisms underlying human AF.
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