Compact fibrosis patterns exhibited the highest electrical instability and lowest stroke volume compared to diffuse and patchy patterns, demonstrating that spatial fibrosis distribution is as crucial as fibrosis amount for ventricular arrhythmogenesis.
Does the spatial distribution and amount of fibrosis affect ventricular arrhythmogenesis and pumping efficacy in a computational model?
Computational modeling demonstrates that the spatial pattern of myocardial fibrosis (especially compact) is as important as the total amount of fibrosis in driving ventricular arrhythmogenesis and reducing stroke volume.
Myocardial fibrosis is an integral component of most forms of heart failure. Clinical and computational studies have reported that spatial fibrosis pattern and fibrosis amount play a significant role in ventricular arrhythmogenicity. This study investigated the effect of the spatial distribution of fibrosis and fibrosis amount on the electrophysiology and mechanical performance of the human ventricles. Seventy-five fibrosis distributions comprising diffuse, patchy, and compact fibrosis types that contain 10-50% fibrosis amount were generated. The spatial fibrosis distribution was quantified using the fibrosis entropy (FE) metric. Electrical simulations under reentry conditions induced using the S1-S2 protocol were conducted to investigate the fibrosis arrhythmogenicity. We also performed mechanical simulations to examine the influence of the fibrosis amount and the spatial distribution of fibrosis on the pumping efficacy of the LV. We observed that the mean FE of the compact type is the largest among the three types. The electrical simulation results revealed that the ventricular arrhythmogenicity of diffuse fibrosis depends on the fibrosis amount and marginally on the spatial distribution of fibrosis. Meanwhile, the ventricular arrhythmogenicity of the compact and patchy fibrosis pattern is more reliant on the spatial distribution of fibrosis than on the fibrosis amount. The average number of phase singularities (PSs) in the compact fibrosis pattern was the highest among the three patterns of fibrosis. The diffuse type of fibrosis has the lowest average number of PSs than that in the patchy and compact fibrosis. The reduction in the stroke volume (SV) showed high influence from the electrical instabilities induced by the fibrosis amount and pattern. The compact fibrosis exhibited the lowest SV among the three patterns except in the 40% fibrosis amount. In conclusion, the fibrosis pattern is as crucial as the fibrosis amount for sustaining and aggravating ventricular arrhythmogenesis.
Heikhmakhtiar et al. (Thu,) conducted a other in Myocardial fibrosis (n=75). Fibrosis patterns (diffuse, patchy, compact) and amounts (10-50%) was evaluated on Arrhythmia sustainability, phase singularities, and stroke volume. Compact fibrosis patterns exhibited the highest electrical instability and lowest stroke volume compared to diffuse and patchy patterns, demonstrating that spatial fibrosis distribution is as crucial as fibrosis amount for ventricular arrhythmogenesis.
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