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1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-6401, USA. rfg2@cornell.edu
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
|March 3, 2004
Abstract:
Computer simulations are potentially effective approaches to unraveling the causes of lethal heart rhythm disorders. In this issue of the JCI, Xie et al. have embedded a well-characterized dynamic mechanism for arrhythmia development in an anatomically realistic computer model of the heart. Their demonstration that this simple mechanism governs the behavior of the complex model may provide a new target for strategies to prevent sudden death.

