The physics of heart rhythm disorders

WJ Rappel - Physics reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The global burden caused by cardiovascular disease is substantial, with heart disease
representing the most common cause of death around the world. There remains a need to …

Cardiac alternans: mechanisms and clinical utility in arrhythmia prevention

K Kulkarni, FM Merchant, MB Kassab… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is frequently the initial manifestation of a cardiac arrhythmia,
resulting in about 350 000 deaths annually in the United States. 1 Devices such as the …

Long-time prediction of arrhythmic cardiac action potentials using recurrent neural networks and reservoir computing

S Shahi, CD Marcotte, CJ Herndon, FH Fenton… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The electrical signals triggering the heart's contraction are governed by non-linear
processes that can produce complex irregular activity, especially during or preceding the …

Long-term changes in heart rate and electrical remodeling contribute to alternans formation in heart failure: a patient-specific in silico study

VM Phadumdeo, BL Mallare… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Individuals with chronic heart failure (CHF) have an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias,
which has been linked to pathological cellular remodeling and may also be mediated by …

Identifying atrial fibrillation mechanisms for personalized medicine

B Deb, P Ganesan, R Feng, SM Narayan - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major cause of heart failure and stroke. The early maintenance of
sinus rhythm has been shown to reduce major cardiovascular endpoints, yet is difficult to …

Introduction to focus issue: Complex cardiac dynamics

EM Cherry, FH Fenton, T Krogh-Madsen… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Even after over a century of active research, the heart continues to reveal new complexities
in behavior and remains difficult to understand fully. Multi-scale dynamics ranging from …

Real-time closed loop diastolic interval control prevents cardiac alternans in isolated whole rabbit hearts

K Kulkarni, SW Lee, R Kluck, EG Tolkacheva - Annals of biomedical …, 2018 - Springer
Cardiac alternans, a beat-to-beat alternation in action potential duration (APD), can lead to
fatal arrhythmias. During periodic pacing, changes in diastolic interval (DI) depend on …

Clinical potential of beat‐to‐beat diastolic interval control in preventing cardiac arrhythmias

K Kulkarni, RD Walton, AA Armoundas… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death are often preceded by
cardiac alternans, a beat‐to‐beat oscillation in the T‐wave morphology or duration …

Sensitivity of a data-assimilation system for reconstructing three-dimensional cardiac electrical dynamics

MJ Hoffman, EM Cherry - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Modelling of cardiac electrical behaviour has led to important mechanistic insights, but
important challenges, including uncertainty in model formulations and parameter values …

Theory of the development of alternans in the heart during controlled diastolic interval pacing

NF Otani - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The beat-to-beat alternation in action potential durations (APDs) in the heart, called APD
alternans, has been linked to the development of serious cardiac rhythm disorders, including …