Journal
SIMULATION-TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION INTERNATIONAL
Volume 95, Issue 12, Pages 1129-1139Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0037549719837346
Keywords
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; ionic current gradients; left-to-right dominant frequency gradient; ectopic activity; in-silico study
Funding
- Intel through the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational Science fellowship
- Intel through the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Data Science fellowship
- COLCIENCIAS Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion de la Republica de Colombia [121065741044]
- Jovenes Investigadores e Innovadores por la Paz program
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Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmia. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (pAF) may occur in episodes lasting from minutes to days. Recent studies suggest that some pAF episodes present a left-to-right dominant frequency gradient caused by ionic current gradients. However, how each ionic current gradient affects the left-to-right dominant frequency gradient during pAF has not been studied. In this work, we use a 3D model of human atria to study how the ionic current gradients affect the dominant frequency gradient during pAF induced by continuous ectopic activity. The role of the specific gradients of acetylcholine-activated potassium current (I-KACh) and inward-rectifier potassium current (I-K1) on determining the left-to-right dominant frequency gradient was assessed. The main outcome of this study is that either or both of the I-KACh or I-K1 gradients are necessary to induce a left-to-right dominant frequency gradient during pAF. However, both gradients are necessary to the left atrium maintaining, by itself, the pAF episode. These findings have potentially important implications for the development of atrial-selective therapeutic approaches.
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