| Literature DB >> 17930473 |
Yuanfang Xie1, Gang Hu, Daisuke Sato, James N Weiss, Alan Garfinkel, Zhilin Qu.
Abstract
Ventricular fibrillation is a lethal condition caused by multiple chaotically wandering electrical wavelets in the heart, reentering their own and each other's territories. The development of effective therapies requires a detailed understanding of how these reentrant waves are initiated. In this Letter, we demonstrate a novel mechanism for inducing reentry, in which chaos synchronization causes large-scale heterogeneities of refractoriness transverse to the direction of propagation. These regions of increased refractoriness create localized conduction block, which induces spiral wave reentry.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17930473 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.118101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161