CV? Curriculum Vitae? Oh, Conduction Velocity! Getting deeper in the calculus of substrate magnitudes It has been a while since I began the journey of my PhD. I remember that, especially in the first months, I spent a lot of my time reading about atrial fibrillation (AF), therapies to treat it, like pulmonary vein isolation …
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Inducing fibrillation episodes ex vivo Hi there! As I mentioned in my last post, this post will be dedicated to inducing atrial fibrillation in tissue culture. If we think about the “macro” triggers which increase the predisposition for fibrillating episodes to happen, this can be due to several risk factors such as comorbidities, emotional triggers …
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Is there room for creativity in science? Scientists have very strict methods to follow during their work. Can they be creative despite it? The months of March and April are being very eventful for the ESRs of PersonalizeAF. We had our 2nd Consortium meeting last month, which has been a great opportunity to see what …
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2nd Consortium Meeting and training course March 10th and 11th : 2nd meeting of PersonalizeAF Network The first of the four years of the project (1 February 2020 to 31 January 2024) came to an end on 1 February. Therefore, it was necessary to ctarry out an analysis of what has happened in this year …
by Arancha Carrasco A Brief Introduction to the Patch Clamp Technique and the Hodgkin–Huxley Equations Patricia Martínez Díaz 6. April. 2021 Hello and welcome back! Now that we had explained some of the basics of electrophysiological modeling in the previous posts, this time I am going to talk about the Patch clamp technique and to further explain the …
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Localized AF Drivers Multiple Wavelets In the previous post, I have addressed the inefficiency of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in patients with persistent forms of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the need for alternative ablation targets. A natural choice is the AF driving mechanisms- anatomical or functional sources maintaining AF episodes. So, what are these mechanisms? …
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