Abstract
There is very limited information regarding the dynamic patterns of the electrical activity during ventricular fibrillation (VF) in humans. Most of the data used to generate and test hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of VF come from animal models and computer simulations and the quantification of VF patterns is non-trivial. Many of the experimental recordings of the dynamic spatial patterns of VF have been obtained from mammals using “optical mapping” or “video imaging” technology in which “phase maps” are derived from high-resolution transmembrane recordings from the heart surface. The surface manifestation of the unstable reentrant waves sustaining VF can be identified as “phase singularities” and their number and location provide one measure of VF complexity. After providing a brief history of optical mapping of VF, we compare and contrast a quantitative analysis of VF patterns from the heart surface for four different animal models, hence providing physiological insight into the variety of VF dynamics among species. We found that in all four animal models the action potential duration restitution slope was actually negative during VF and that the spatial dispersion of electrophysiological parameters were not different during the first second of VF compared to pacing immediately before VF initiation. Surprisingly, our results suggest that APD restitution and spatial dispersion may not be essential causes of VF dynamics. Analyses of electrophysiological quantities in the four animal models are consistent with the idea that VF is essentially a two-dimensional phenomenon in small rabbit hearts whose size are near the boundary of the “critical mass” required to sustain VF, while VF in large pig hearts is three-dimensional and exhibits the maximal theoretical phase singularity density, and thus will not terminate spontaneously.
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We would like to extend special thanks to Drs. Isabelle Banville and Nipon Chattipakorn who performed the experiments analyzed here. A portion of this work is contained in Dr. Park’s Masters Thesis from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Wavelength=APD*CV (cm).
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Action potential duration (ms).
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Action potential duration dispersion (ms).
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Cycle length (ms).
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Conduction velocity (cm/s).
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Conduction velocity dispersion (cm/s).
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Critical rotor diameter (cm).
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Diastolic interval (ms).
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Large (pig) cytoD animal model.
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Large (pig) DAM animal model.
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Phase singularity (none).
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Small (rabbit) cytoD animal model.
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Small (rabbit) DAM animal model.
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Park, S.A., Gray, R.A. (2015). Optical Mapping of Ventricular Fibrillation Dynamics. In: Canepari, M., Zecevic, D., Bernus, O. (eds) Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17641-3_13
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