March 1, 1996International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Spiral Waves and the Heart
Key result
Recent studies provide evidence that reentrant arrhythmias in the heart result from spiral waves of electrical activity, aligning with predictions from spiral wave theory in excitable media.
Population
The human heart/excitable media (review of mechanisms of reentrant arrhythmias)
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Review
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Implication
May guide mechanistic arrhythmia research; leaves open clinical translation pending validation.
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Population
The human heart/excitable media (review of mechanisms of reentrant arrhythmias)
This review highlights that reentrant arrhythmias in the heart are driven by spiral waves of electrical activity, applying general excitable media theory to cardiac electrophysiology.
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Gray et al. (1996) conducted a review in Reentrant arrhythmias. Spiral waves of electrical activity was evaluated. Recent studies provide evidence that reentrant arrhythmias in the heart result from spiral waves of electrical activity, aligning with predictions from spiral wave theory in excitable media.