%0 Journal Article
%T Numerical Simulations of Fractionated Electrograms and Pathological Cardiac Action Potential
%A Simona Sanfelici
%J Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
%D 2002
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1080/1027366021000041377
%X The aim of this work is twofold. First we focus on the complex phenomenon of electrogram fractionation, due to the presence of discontinuities in the conduction properties of the cardiac tissue in a bidomain model. Numerical simulations of paced activation may help to understand the role of the membrane ionic currents and of the changes in cellular coupling in the formation of conduction blocks and fractionation of the electrogram waveform. In particular, we show that fractionation is independent of INA alterations and that it can be described by the bidomain model of cardiac tissue. Moreover, some deflections in fractionated electrograms may give nonlocal information about the shape of damaged areas, also revealing the presence of inhomogeneities in the intracellular conductivity of the medium at a distance.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cmmm/2002/601906/abs/