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Electrical Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Heart Muscle
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Rotors or vortex action potentials with a diameter of about 1 centimeter and a rotation period of about 0.1 second occur in normal myocardium just before transition to fibrillation, a disorderly pattern of action potential propagation. Numerical models and corresponding mathematical analysis have recently suggested candidate mechanisms, all two-dimensional, for this transition from periodic electrical activity to something resembling turbulence. However, comparably recent experiments unanimously show that rotors, and the spiral waves they radiate, remain stably periodic in two-dimensional myocardium. This seeming paradox suggests a transition mediated through disorderly dynamics of the electrical vortex in three dimensions, as a "vortex filament."
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- Authors
- Winfree, A. T.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-11-11
- Volume
- 266
- Issue
- 5187
- Pages
- 1003-1006
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2021921746
- Cited by
- 448
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 6.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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