Substrate Comprising Fibrosis and Epicardial Adipose Tissue-Associated Electrophysiological Remodeling Can Sustain Atrial Fibrillation Drivers: Insights from Image-Personalized Computational Simulations.
BACKGROUND Computational models of atrial fibrillation (AF) help clarify arrhythmia mechanisms, but the contribution of left atrial (LA) epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is rarely included. OBJECTIVE To assess whether incorporating EAT-associated effects into fibrosis-based atrial models alters reentrant arrhythmia in...