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Ventricular fibrillation (VF) occurs due to disorganized electrical activity in the ventricles. This leads to rapid uncoordinated contractions of the ventricles and sudden cardiac death if not treated within minutes of its occurrence. The mechanism of VF initiation and maintenance is still elusive, however the mother rotor and multiple wavelet theories attempt to explain the mechanism behind this...
The arterial baroreflex stabilizes arterial pressure by modulating the mechanical properties of cardiovascular system. We previously demonstrated that the baroreflex impairment makes the circulatory system extremely sensitive to volume overload and predisposes to pulmonary edema irrespective of left ventricular systolic function. To overcome the volume intolerance, we developed an artificial baroreflex...
In this study, we determined the optimal position and direction of a one-channel bipolar electrocardiogram (ECG), used ubiquitously in healthcare. To do this, we developed a three-dimensional (3D) electrophysiological model of the heart coupled with a torso model that can generate a virtual body surface potential map (BSPM). Finite element models of the atria and ventricles incorporated the electrophysiological...
Ventricular arrhythmias represent one of leading causes for sudden cardiac death, a significant problem in public health. Noninvasive imaging of cardiac electric activities associated with ventricular arrhythmias plays an important role in better our understanding of the mechanisms and optimizing the treatment options. The present study aims to rigorously validate a novel three-dimensional (3-D) cardiac...
We need to find novel ways of increasing exercise participation, particularly in those populations who find it difficult to participate in voluntary exercise. In recent years researchers have started to investigate the potential for using electrical stimulation to artificially stimulate a pattern of muscle activity that would induce a physiological response consistent with cardiovascular exercise...
Identification of electrical activation or depolarization times on sparsely-sampled complex heart surfaces is of importance to clinicians and researchers in cardiac electrophys-iology. We introduce a spatiotemporal approach for activation time estimation which combines prior results using spatial and temporal methods with our own progress on gradient estimation on triangulated surfaces. Results of...
The effect of the most useful anaesthetic in cardiovascular therapy, called propofol, was evaluated in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). In order to represent the electrogram recordings in a more efficient manner Principal component analysis (PCA) has been applied. Moreover, to reduce the data set to a few representative activations PCA was applied again to measure the average dissimilarity...
A tissue bath system, to be used as an alternative to complex perfusion chambers, was constructed for use in cardiac electrophysiological studies. This system consists of an acrylic chamber to hold circulating physiological medium such as DMEM, suspended in a water bath warmed by a hot plate. Temperature and pH were controlled to mimic physiological conditions. Rat and porcine cardiac tissues, were...
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