• Robin Van den abeele
  • Sander Hendrickx
  • Enid Van nieuwenhuyse
  • Albert Dunnink
  • Alexander v. Panfilov
  • Marc a. Vos
  • Eike m. Wülfers
  • Nele Vandersickel
Torsade de Pointes is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia which is as yet incompletely understood. While the onset of a TdP episode is generally accepted to be caused by triggered activity, the mechanisms for the perpetuation is still under debate. In this study, we analysed data from 54 TdP episodes divided over 5 dogs (4 female, 1 male) with chronic atrioventricular block. Previous research on this dataset showed both reentry and triggered activity to perpetuate the arrhythmia. 13 of those TdP episodes showed reentry as part of the driving mechanism of perpetuating the episode. The remaining 41 episodes were purely ectopic. Reentry was the main mechanism in long-lasting episodes (>14 beats), while focal sources were responsible for maintaining shorter episodes. Building on these results, we re-analysed the data using directed graph mapping This program uses principles from network theory and a combination of positional data and local activation times to identify reentry loops and focal sources within the data. The results of this study are twofold. First, concerning reentry loops, we found that on average non-terminating (NT) episodes (≥10 s) show significantly more simultaneous reentry loops than self-terminating (ST) TdP ([removed].
Язык оригиналаАнглийский
Номер статьи1201260
ЖурналFrontiers in Physiology
Том14
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 2023

    Предметные области ASJC Scopus

  • Physiology (medical)
  • Physiology

    Предметные области WoS

  • Физиология

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