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Computer Modeling of Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances and Heart‐Pacemaker Interaction
Author(s) -
MALIK MAREK,
CAMM A. JOHN
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1988.tb06357.x
Subject(s) - reentry , medicine , rhythm , heart rhythm , cardiac pacemaker , tachycardia , ventricular tachycardia , cardiac electrophysiology , cardiology , reentrancy , cardiac pacing , cardiac arrhythmia , electrophysiology , atrial fibrillation , computer science , programming language
Different computer models have been developed in order to study various aspects of cardiac electrophysiological processes. These models can be classified according to many parameters and also in respect to their application areas. One group of the models is devoted to computer simulation of cardiac rhythm disturbances and to reproduction of interactions between the heart and an artificial pulse generator. This report overviews the recent models of arrhythmias and heart‐pacemaker interaction. Special attention is paid to (1) functioning of fundamental model elements, (2) structure of the heart model, (3) pacemaker models, and (4) forms of results offered by simulation experiments. Existing models are classified and compared. To illustrate the medical capability of rhythm and pacemaker models, three computational experiments are presented with model atrioventricular reentry tachycardia and reentry tachycardia mediated by a DDD pacemaker. Future development and utilization of arrhythmia and pacemaker models are briefly discussed.