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ArticleScientific reports2020

Key factors behind autofluorescence changes caused by ablation of cardiac tissue.

Narine Muselimyan, Huda Asfour, Narine Sarvazyan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Narine MuselimyanDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC, 20037, USA.
Huda AsfourDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC, 20037, USA.
Narine SarvazyanDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC, 20037, USA. phynas@gwu.edu.
George Washington University · US

Funding

New generation of catheters for treatment of atrial fibrillationR42HL120511 · NHLBI · NOCTURNAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, LLC · PI SARVAZYAN, NARINE · 2016 to 2017
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R42 HL120511NIH HHS R42HL120511
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiofrequency ablation is a commonly used clinical procedure that destroys arrhythmogenic sources in patients suffering from atrial fibrillation and other types of cardiac arrhythmias. To improve the success of this procedure, new approaches for real-time visualization of ablation sites are being developed. One of these promising methods is hyperspectral imaging, an approach that detects lesions based on changes in the endogenous tissue autofluorescence profile. To facilitate the clinical implementation of this approach, we examined the key variables that can influence ablation-induced spectral changes, including the drop in myocardial NADH levels, the release of lipofuscin-like pigments, and the increase in diffuse reflectance of the cardiac muscle beneath the endocardial layer. Insights from these experiments suggested simpler algorithms that can be used to acquire and post-process the spectral information required to reveal the lesion sites. Our study is relevant to a growing number of multilayered clinical targets to which spectral approaches are being applied.

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AnimalsAtrial FibrillationCatheter AblationCattleEndocardiumHeartHumansLipofuscinMyocardiumMyocytes, CardiacNADOptical ImagingPigments, BiologicalRatsSwineTreatment OutcomeLipofuscinNADPigments, Biological

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PMID32958843
PMCPMC7506017
OpenAlexW3087387230

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