What is an Atrial Fibrillation Rotor – In Patients? Rationale for Focal ...

In AF, the reverse is true with the rotor core being the principle mechanism and the emanating spiral waves rapidly disorganizing via wavebreak and collision ...

Role of Rotors in the Ablative Therapy of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Contact mapping with focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) shows that localised ablation at sources can improve procedural success in many ...

Stability Of Rotors And Focal Sources For Human Atrial Fibrillation

Several groups report electrical rotors or focal sources that sustain atrial fibrillation (AF) after it has been triggered. However, it is difficult to separate ...

New Insights into Understanding Rotor versus Focal Activation in ...

Recent contact mapping studies in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) demonstrated that phase analysis produced a different ...

Rotor mechanism and its mapping in atrial fibrillation | EP Europace

Treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) remains challenging despite significant progress in understanding its underlying mechanisms. The first ...

New Insights Into Understanding Rotor Versus Focal Activation in ...

Recent contact mapping studies in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) demonstrated that phase analysis produced a different mechanistic result ...

Focal impulse and rotor modulation: Acute procedural observations ...

Focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) was based on the premise that atrial fibrillation (AF) is sustained by rotors that are ...

Locating Atrial Fibrillation Rotor and Focal Sources Using Iterative ...

The purpose of this study is to present the first algorithm to iteratively navigate a circular multi-polar catheter to locate AF focal and rotor ...

Rotors and Focal Sources for Human Atrial Fibrillation - J-Stage

Elimination of sources by Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation (FIRM)-guided ablation has been shown by independent laboratories to substantially improve success ...

The role of rotors in atrial fibrillation - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Kowal RC, Daubert J, Day J, et al. Results of focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) for atrial fibrillation are equivalent between patients treated in San ...

Focal Atrial Fibrillation - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Focal atrial fibrillation is a fairly recently discovered mechanism of sustained atrial fibrillation that is amenable to ablation of the initiating focus.

Practical Aspects of Rotor Mapping in Catheter Ablation of Atrial ...

A number of mechanisms underlie the different forms of atrial fibrillation (AF). Pulmonary vein (PV) ectopy may act as a driver maintaining ...

Abstract 11178: Right Atrial Rotors and Focal Impulses in Human ...

Accordingly, we hypothesized that localized electrical rotors and focal beats, that have recently been shown to cause human AF, may also lie in ...

Focal impulse and rotor modulation of atrial rotors during atrial ...

Focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) can cause slowing, organization, and occasionally termination of atrial fibrillation (AF), ...

Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation by the Ablation of Localized Sources

We hypothesized that human atrial fibrillation (AF) may be sustained by localized sources (electrical rotors and focal impulses), whose elimination (focal ...

Multicentre safety of adding Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation ...

Aims. Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation (FIRM) uses 64-electrode basket catheters to identify atrial fibrillation (AF)-sustaining sites for ablation, with.

Atrial Fibrillation - Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education

Atrial fibrillation rotors represent an emerging concept as a sustaining mechanism for AF involving spiral waves detected by spectral analysis of dominant ...

Quantitative Analysis of Localized Sources Identified by Focal ...

New approaches to ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) include focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) mapping, and initial results ...

Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Figure 4: Focal impulse and rotor modulation (FIRM) terminates paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm and renders it non-inducible.(a) Left atrial ...

Stand‐alone Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation (FIRM) ablation ...

Since the first description of triggers in the pulmonary veins pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) became the cornerstone of atrial fibrillation (AF) ...