Electrogram Morphology Recurrence Patterns during Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation Thursday, August 7th, 2014Heart rhythm journal: August 04, 2014
Background
Traditional mapping of atrial fibrillation (AF) is limited by changing electrogram morphologies and variable cycle lengths.
Objective
We tested the hypothesis that morphology recurrence plot analysis would identify sites of stable and repeatable electrogram morphology patterns.
Methods
AF electrograms recorded from left atrial (LA) and right atrial (RA) sites in 19 patients (10 male, 59±10 years old) prior to AF ablation were analyzed. Morphology recurrence plots for each electrogram recording were created by cross-correlation of each automatically detected activation with every other activation in the recording. A recurrence percentage, the percentage of the most common morphology, and the mean cycle length of activations with the most common morphology (CLR) were computed. Read More