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(Circulation. 2005;112:1532-1541.)
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Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology

Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation in Canine Models of Congestive Heart Failure and Ischemia Assessed by In Vivo Noncontact Mapping

Thomas H. Everett, IV, PhD; Emily E. Wilson, BS; Scott Foreman, BS; Jeffrey E. Olgin, MD

From the Division of Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco.

Correspondence to Jeffrey E. Olgin, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Ave, MU East 4, Box 1354, San Francisco, CA 94143-1354. E-mail olgin{at}medicine.ucsf.edu

Received November 12, 2004; revision received May 13, 2005; accepted May 17, 2005.

Background— Much of the research performed studying the mechanism of ventricular fibrillation (VF) has been in normal ventricles rather than under a pathological condition predisposing to VF. We hypothesized that different ventricular substrates would alter the mechanism and characteristics of VF.

Methods and Results— Three groups of dogs were studied: (1) control (n=8), (2) pacing-induced congestive heart failure (n=7), and (3) acute ischemia produced by 30 minutes of mid left anterior descending artery ligation (n=5). A noncontact mapping catheter (Ensite 3000, ESI) was placed via transseptal into the left ventricle (LV), along with an electrophysiology catheter. A multielectrode basket catheter (EP Technologies) was placed in the right ventricle, along with an electrophysiology catheter. Several episodes of VF were recorded in each animal. In addition to constructing isopotential and isochronal maps of the VF episodes, signals underwent frequency domain analysis as a fast Fourier transform was performed over a 2-second window every 1 second. From the fast Fourier transform, the dominant frequency was determined, and the organization was calculated. In control dogs, meandering, reentrant spiral wave activity was the main feature of the VF. The congestive heart failure group showed evidence of a stable rotor (n=3), evidence of a focal source (n=3), or no evidence of a driver in the LV (n=1). The ischemic group showed evidence of an initial focal mechanism that transitioned into reentry. In the control and ischemic groups, the LV always had higher dominant frequencies than the right ventricle.

Conclusions— Different ventricular substrates produced by the different animal models altered the characteristics of VF. Thus, different mechanisms of VF may be present in the LV, depending on the animal model.

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