eprintid: 1466311 rev_number: 43 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/46/63/11 datestamp: 2015-04-16 19:39:56 lastmod: 2021-12-13 02:43:26 status_changed: 2017-04-11 09:53:16 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Child, N creators_name: Bishop, MJ creators_name: Hanson, B creators_name: Coronel, R creators_name: Opthof, T creators_name: Boukens, BJ creators_name: Walton, RD creators_name: Efimov, IR creators_name: Bostock, J creators_name: Hill, Y creators_name: Rinaldi, CA creators_name: Razavi, R creators_name: Gill, J creators_name: Taggart, P title: An activation-repolarization time metric to predict localized regions of high susceptibility to reentry ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: D14 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F45 keywords: Arrhythmia; ventricular tachycardia; ablation note: Copyright © 2015. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. abstract: BACKGROUND Initiation of reentrant ventricular tachycardia (VT)involves complex interactions between front and tail of the activation wave. Recent experimental work has identified the time interval between S2 repolarization proximal to a line of functional block and S2 activation at the adjacent distal side as a critical determinant of reentry. OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that (1) an algorithm could be developed to generate a spatial map of this interval (“reentry vulnerability index” [RVI]), (2) this would accurately identify a site of reentry without the need to actually induce the arrhythmia, and (3) it would be possible to generate an RVI map in patients during routine clinical procedures. METHODS An algorithm was developed that calculated RVI between all pairs of electrodes within a given radius. RESULTS The algorithm successfully identified the region with increased susceptibility to reentry in an established Langendorff pig heart model and the site of reentry and rotor formation in an optically mapped sheep ventricular preparation and computational simulations. The feasibility of RVI mapping was evaluated during a clinical procedure by coregistering with cardiac anatomy and physiology of a patient undergoing VT ablation. CONCLUSION We developed an algorithm to calculate a reentry vulnerability index from intervals between local repolarization and activation. The algorithm accurately identified the region of reentry in 2 animal models of functional reentry. The clinical application was demonstrated in a patient with VT and identified the area of reentry without the need of inducing the arrhythmia. date: 2015-07 publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.04.013 vfaculties: VENG oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: PubMed elements_id: 1025942 doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.04.013 lyricists_name: Hanson, Benjamin lyricists_name: Taggart, Peter lyricists_id: BMHAN48 lyricists_id: PITAG68 full_text_status: public publication: Heart Rhythm volume: 12 number: 7 pagerange: 1644-1653 pages: 10 issn: 1547-5271 citation: Child, N; Bishop, MJ; Hanson, B; Coronel, R; Opthof, T; Boukens, BJ; Walton, RD; ... Taggart, P; + view all <#> Child, N; Bishop, MJ; Hanson, B; Coronel, R; Opthof, T; Boukens, BJ; Walton, RD; Efimov, IR; Bostock, J; Hill, Y; Rinaldi, CA; Razavi, R; Gill, J; Taggart, P; - view fewer <#> (2015) An activation-repolarization time metric to predict localized regions of high susceptibility to reentry. Heart Rhythm , 12 (7) pp. 1644-1653. 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.04.013 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.04.013>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1466311/1/Hanson_emss-66261.pdf