Sustained epicardial rotors exist during ventricular fibrillation in large mammalian hearts but do not appear to drive the arrhythmia via the mother rotor mechanism.
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Questions epicardial rotor role in VF; hypothesis-generating in animals, human mechanism unresolved.
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