Applied Math Seminar
Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:00pm, 120 Physics
Kirill B. Skouibine (Duke University)
The Role of Cardiac Tissue Structure in Reentry Induction: A Modeling Study
Abstract:- Most dangerous cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular
fibrillation (VF), is characterized by chaotic
electrical behavior of the tissue. At the onset
of the first, more organized stage of VF waves
of electric activity in the heart become reentrant
leading to fast irregular contraction.
Better understanding of the mechanisms underlying
early VF events will lead to more efficient treatment.
Reentry induction has been performed in several
experiments. We devise a model of cardiac
tissue and use it to obtain a close match to
the experimental results.
The model combines macroscopic and microscopic
properties of cardiac tissue.
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