Catheter systems and related methods for mapping, minimizing, and treating cardiac fibrillation

PS Spector - US Patent 11,089,987, 2021 - Google Patents
Catheters, systems, and related methods for optimized for mapping, minimizing, and treating
cardiac fibrillation in a patient, including an array of at least one stacked electrode pair, each …

Atrial fibrillation cycle-length (AF-CL) inside the pulmonary veins predicts paroxysmal AF ablation success—the INDUCE-AF study

M Bergonti, C Ascione, P Compagnucci… - Journal of Interventional …, 2024 - Springer
Background A novel method to measure atrial fibrillation cycle length (AF-CL) was recently
described, based on the average of 10 consecutive signals (FARS10). FARS10 accurately …

Cycle length statistics during human atrial fibrillation reveal refractory properties of the underlying substrate: a combined in silico and clinical test of concept study

LA Unger, L Azzolin, M Nothstein, J Sanchez… - EP …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims The treatment of atrial fibrillation beyond pulmonary vein isolation has remained an
unsolved challenge. Targeting regions identified by different substrate mapping approaches …

Prospective, tissue-specific optimization of ablation for multiwavelet reentry: predicting the required amount, location, and configuration of lesions

RT Carrick, BE Benson, JHT Bates… - Circulation: Arrhythmia …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Treatment of multiwavelet reentry (MWR) remains difficult. We previously
developed a metric, the fibrillogenicity index, to assess the propensity of homogeneous, 2 …

Recent advances in understanding the basic mechanisms of atrial fibrillation using novel computational approaches

J Zhao, O Aslanidi, P Kuklik, G Lee, G Tse… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained heart rhythm disturbance, associated
with substantial morbidity and mortality (Andrade et al., 2014). The current prevalence of AF …

Understanding the beat-to-beat variations of P-waves morphologies in AF patients during sinus rhythm: a scoping review of the atrial simulation studies

D Filos, D Tachmatzidis, N Maglaveras… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The remarkable advances in high-performance computing and the resulting increase of the
computational power have the potential to leverage computational cardiology toward …

Utility of Simultaneous Biatrial Atrial Anti-Tachycardia Pacing for the Termination of Atrial Fibrillation during Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

S Maeda, M Goya, Y Shirai, A Yagishita, S Tao… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Atrial anti-tachycardia pacing (A-ATP) of the right atrium (RA) has been shown
to decrease the burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with dual-chamber pacemakers …

[PDF][PDF] Experimental Assessment of Cardiac Function: Creating the Basis for Tailored Therapies

N Virag, V Jacquemet, L Kappenberger, A Auricchio - scholar.archive.org
Computer simulations have gained increasing importance for the understanding of cardiac
arrhythmias and the development of new therapeutic solutions, overcoming some of the …

Understanding Atrial Fibrillation

MD Peter Spector - Wiley Online Library
Despite the numerous good books available on the topic, there are several reasons I think it
is worthwhile writing yet another book about atrial fibrillation (AF). Fibrillation involves …

[图书][B] Understanding Atrial Fibrillation

P Spector - 2019 - books.google.com
A new guide to the mechanisms and principles behind the world's most common abnormal
heart rhythm Affecting 30 million or more people across the globe, atrial fibrillation is one of …