Mother rotors and fibrillatory conduction: a mechanism of atrial fibrillation.

By J. Jalife, O. Berenfeld, M. Mansour. Cardiovascular Research, 2002

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Optical Imaging of Voltage and Calcium in Cardiac Cells & Tissues (2012, background): “First, we explore key components of a modern optical mapping set-up, focusing on: (1) new camera technologies; (2) powerful light-emitting-diodes (from ultraviolet to red) for illumination; (3) improved optical filter technology; (4) new synthetic and optogenetic fluorescent probes; (5) optical mapp”
2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, background): “For many years, three concepts competed to explain the mechanism of AF: multiple reentrant wavelets (Figure 3A), rapidly discharging automatic foci (Figure 3B), and a single reentrant circuit with fibrillatory conduction (Figure 3C).(194,195,196) Considerable progress has been made in defining the m”
Driver Domains in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (2014, methodology): “Jalife et al used phase based optical signal processing to demonstrate rotor activities with a spectrum of scenarios from single meandering rotor to multiple, periodic rotors giving rise to fibrillatory activation.(4,26)In all models, the apparition of fibrosis increased substrate dimension both in ”
Rotors and the Dynamics of Cardiac Fibrillation (2013, background): “breaks that its spiraling waves undergo in the periphery, as it happens in fibrillatory conduction.(36)”