Ventricular Fibrillation Is Not Always Due to Multiple Wavelet Reentry

Mechanisms of VF. Introduction: It is not known whether ventricular fibrillation (VF) is always caused by multiple wavelet reentry, or if it could also be caused by a single wandering reentrant wavefront. Activation mapping of the entire ventricles during VF is practically impossible.

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