Computational models of atrial fibrillation: Achievements, challenges, and perspectives for improving clinical care

J Heijman, H Sutanto, HJGM Crijns… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite significant advances in its detection, understanding and management, atrial
fibrillation (AF) remains a highly prevalent cardiac arrhythmia with a major impact on …

Mathematical approaches to understanding and imaging atrial fibrillation: significance for mechanisms and management

NA Trayanova - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in humans. The mechanisms
that govern AF initiation and persistence are highly complex, of dynamic nature, and involve …

Inter-subject variability in human atrial action potential in sinus rhythm versus chronic atrial fibrillation

C Sánchez, A Bueno-Orovio, E Wettwer, S Loose… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Aims Human atrial electrophysiology exhibits high inter-subject variability in both sinus
rhythm (SR) and chronic atrial fibrillation (cAF) patients. Variability is however rarely …

Computational assessment of drug‐induced effects on the electrocardiogram: from ion channel to body surface potentials

N Zemzemi, MO Bernabeu, J Saiz… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Understanding drug effects on the heart is key to safety
pharmacology assessment and anti‐arrhythmic therapy development. Here our goal is to …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging experiments, models and simulations: an integrative approach to validation in computational cardiac electrophysiology

A Carusi, K Burrage… - American Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Computational models in physiology often integrate functional and structural information
from a large range of spatiotemporal scales from the ionic to the whole organ level. Their …

A three-dimensional human atrial model with fiber orientation. Electrograms and arrhythmic activation patterns relationship

C Tobón, CA Ruiz-Villa, E Heidenreich, L Romero… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The most common sustained cardiac arrhythmias in humans are atrial tachyarrhythmias,
mainly atrial fibrillation. Areas of complex fractionated atrial electrograms and high dominant …

Unlocking data sets by calibrating populations of models to data density: A study in atrial electrophysiology

BAJ Lawson, CC Drovandi, N Cusimano, P Burrage… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The understanding of complex physical or biological systems nearly always requires a
characterization of the variability that underpins these processes. In addition, the data used …

Metabolic considerations in atrial fibrillation―mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities―

M Harada, J Melka, Y Sobue, S Nattel - Circulation Journal, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in clinical practice and is
associated with morbidity and mortality. Over the past 2 decades, there have been major …

Computational modeling of electrophysiology and pharmacotherapy of atrial fibrillation: recent advances and future challenges

M Vagos, IGM van Herck, J Sundnes… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation (AF) is broad, with components related to the unique
and diverse cellular electrophysiology of atrial myocytes, structural complexity, and …

Na/K pump regulation of cardiac repolarization: insights from a systems biology approach

A Bueno-Orovio, C Sánchez, E Pueyo… - Pflügers Archiv-European …, 2014 - Springer
The sodium-potassium pump is widely recognized as the principal mechanism for active ion
transport across the cellular membrane of cardiac tissue, being responsible for the creation …