Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging of arrhythmogenic substrates in humans.
Noninvasive electrocardiographic imaging of arrhythmogenic substrates in humans.
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DOI:
10.1161/circresaha.112.279315
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
影响因子:
20.1
通讯作者:
Rudy Y
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作者:
Rudy Y
Cardiac excitation is determined by interactions between the source of electrical activation (membrane depolarization) and the load that cardiac tissue presents. This relationship is altered in pathology by remodeling processes that often create a substrate favoring the development of cardiac arrhythmias. Most studies of arrhythmia mechanisms and arrhythmogenic substrates have been conducted in animal models, which may differ in important ways from the human pathologies they are designed to represent. Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) is a noninvasive method for mapping the electrical activity of the heart in humans, under “real world” conditions. This review summarizes results from ECGI studies of arrhythmogenic substrates associated with human clinical arrhythmias. Examples include: heart failure, myocardial infarction scar, atrial fibrillation and abnormal ventricular repolarization.