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Biosalud  2011 

REMODELADO ESTRUCTURAL Y DE GAP JUNCTIONS EN UN MODELO 3D DE AURíCULA HUMANA

Keywords: atrial fibrillation, gap junctions, 3d model, action potential, reentry, electrical remodeling.

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introduction: atrial fibrillation (af) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and a significant risk factor for cerebrovascular accident and other morbidities if left untreated. epidemiological studies show that af tends to persist over time, creating electrophysiological and anatomical changes called atrial remodeling. it has been shown that these changes result in variations in conduction velocity (cv) in the atrial tissue. objective: to study the effect of remodeling of gap junctions in the propagation of the action potential by implementing a highly realistic 3d human atrial model. materials and methods: the changes caused by electrical remodeling were incorporated in an atrial myocyte action potential (ap) model coupled with an anatomically realistic three-dimensional model of dilated human atria. through simulations of the ap spread in variations of anatomical and electrical remodeling and of gap junctions remodeling, vulnerable windows of reentry generation were measured at the base of the atrium left pulmonary veins. results: the results obtained indicate that vulnerable window in the gap junctions remodeling moved 38 ms in relation with the expanded model which shows the impact of the dilatation gap junction remodeling. conclusions: the electrical remodeling produced 70% decrease in action potential duration and decreased conduction velocities between 14.6 and 26 %, which were measured in different regions of the dilated atrium. the focus shot at the base of the left pulmonary veins created a wave which maintains a reentering activity due to the underlying anatomy of the pulmonary veins.

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