Key result
Focal activity drives AF progression from pulmonary veins but poses diagnostic challenges due to spatial instability.
Why the study?
Diagnostics of focal activity in atrial fibrillation remains a challenging clinical task despite electrogram analysis algorithms due to spatial instability and mapping electrode activation direction.
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This review highlights the role of focal activity in triggering atrial fibrillation and the diagnostic challenges associated with mapping it.
Focal activity is one of the dominant triggers of atrial fibrillation. Its activity is revealed in paroxysmal as well as in persistent patterns of arrhythmia. Starting as a trigger of atrial fibrillation in pulmonary veins, over time with increasing of burden of atrial fibrillation, focal activity is more and more revealed out of pulmonary veins: anterior and posterior left atrial walls, interatrial septum, coronary sinus, ligament of Marshal and right atrium. Diagnostics of focal activity is a challenging clinical task despite implementation of mathematical algorithms of electrogram analysis because of its spatial instability and activation direction of the mapping electrode. All these items are discussed in the article.
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Aleksandrova et al. (2023) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. Focal activity is a dominant trigger of atrial fibrillation that progresses from pulmonary veins to other atrial regions, presenting diagnostic challenges due to spatial instability.
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