PMID: 11334828May 4, 2001Paper

Mechanisms underlying ventricular tachycardia and its transition to ventricular fibrillation in the structurally normal heart

Cardiovascular Research
F H Samie, J Jalife

Abstract

Reentrant ventricular tachycardia (VT) is the most common sustained arrhythmia leading to ventricular fibrillation (VF). However, despite more than a century of research, the mechanism(s) of the conversion from reentrant VT to VF have not been elucidated. Based on their different electrocardiographic appearance, reentrant VT and VF have traditionally been thought of as resulting from two widely different mechanisms. Whereas VT is seen as a rapid but well organized process whereby the excitation wave rotates about a single well-defined circuit, fibrillation has been described as turbulent cardiac electrical activity, resulting from the random and aperiodic propagation of multiple independent wavelets throughout the cardiac muscle. Recently, the application of concepts derived from the theory of non-linear dynamics to the problem of wave propagation in the heart and the advent of modern high-resolution mapping techniques, have led some investigators to view VT and VF in terms of a single mechanism, whereby the self-organization of electrical waves forms 'rotors' that give rise to rapidly rotating spiral waves and results in either VT or VF, depending on the frequency of rotation and on the interaction of wave fronts with the card...Continue Reading

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