Functional mapping to reveal slow conduction and substrate progression in atrial fibrillation.

Etel Silva Garcia Ivan Lobo-Torres Juan Fernández-Armenta Diego Penela Marcos Fernandez-GarciaAndrea Gomez-LopezDavid Soto-IglesiasRafael Fernández-RiveroRafael Vazquez-Garcia Juan Acosta Felipe BisbalLucas Cano-CalabriaAntonio Berruezo

Published in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)

Functional mapping identifies more discrete and reproducible abnormal substrates than mapping during AF. The HSC+ sites in response to triple extrastimuli are more frequent in persistent AF than in paroxysmal AF.

Keyphrases

atrial fibrillation
high resolution
catheter ablation
left atrial
oral anticoagulants
left atrial appendage
direct oral anticoagulants
high density
heart failure
genome wide
percutaneous coronary intervention
single cell
mass spectrometry
left ventricular
coronary artery disease
mitral valve
structural basis