How best to describe the location of the substrates for abnormal cardiac rhythms

Robert H Anderson; Eduardo Back Sternick; Rehan Mahmud; Jose Angel Cabrera; Demosthenes Katritsis; Jeronimo Farre; Justin T Tretter; Diane E Spicer; Andrew C Cook; Damian Sanchez-Quintana

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.05.066

How best to describe the location of the substrates for abnormal cardiac rhythms

Heart Rhythm. 2024 Dec;21(12):2377-2385. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.05.066.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.
² Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Department, Biocor Institute, Nova Lima, Brazil. Electronic address: eduardosternick@gmail.com.
³ College of Medicine, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, Michigan.
⁴ Unidad de Arritmias, Departamento de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Quirón-Salud Madrid and Complejo Hospitalario Ruber Juan Bravo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital and Institute of Biomedical Research, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Children's, and The Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁸ Congenital Heart Center, All Children's Hospital, St Petersberg, Florida.
⁹ Zayed Centre for Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.

PMID: 39613378
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.05.066

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Keywords: Anatomy of the human heart; Attitudinally appropriate nomenclature; Location of arrhythmia substrates; Position of the heart; Valentine position.