Getting to the heart of mapping arrhythmia-related excitations

(American Institute of Physics) Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent form of cardiac arrhythmia, affecting up to 6 million people in the US alone. Common treatments for severe forms of the erratic beating phenomenon are controversial, and guided by detection methods that are not yet standardized or fully refined. But research from a group of cross-disciplinary scientists, published this week in the journal Chaos, offers a computational approach to understanding the important factors involved in measuring cardiac excitation waves.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news