Publications by Laurent Renaud Uldry

Systematic comparison of non-invasive measures for the assessment of atrial fibrillation complexity: a step forward towards standardization of atrial fibrillation electrogram analysis

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Jérôme Sébastien Van Zaen

Aims To present a comparison of electrocardiogram-based non-invasive measures of atrial fibrillation (AF) substrate complexity computed on invasive animal recordings to discriminate between short-term and long-term AF. The final objective is the selection ...

Oxford Univ Press2015

Atrial septal pacing for the termination of atrial fibrillation: study in a biophysical model of human atria

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Lukas Kappenberger

Aims While successful termination by pacing of organized atrial tachycardias has been observed in patients, single site rapid pacing has not yet led to conclusive results for the termination of atrial fibrillation (AF). The purpose of this study was to eva ...

Oxford Univ Press2012

Measures of spatiotemporal organization differentiate persistent from long-standing atrial fibrillation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Yann Prudat, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Jérôme Sébastien Van Zaen, Lukas Kappenberger

This study presents an automatic diagnostic method for the discrimination between persistent and long-standing atrial fibrillation (AF) based on the surface electrocardiogram (ECG). Standard 12-lead ECG recordings were acquired in 53 patients with either p ...

Oxford Univ Press2012

Estimating the time scale and anatomical location of atrial fibrillation spontaneous termination in a biophysical model

Jean-Marc Vesin, Vincent Jacquemet, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Lukas Kappenberger

Due to their transient nature, spontaneous terminations of atrial fibrillation (AF) are difficult to investigate. Apparently, confounding experimental findings about the time scale of this phenomenon have been reported, with values ranging from 1 s to 1 mi ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Harmonic frequency tracking algorithm for predicting the success of pharmacological cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Andréa Buttu, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Jérôme Sébastien Van Zaen, Lukas Kappenberger

Purpose: Non-invasively predicting the success of pharmacological cardioversion for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) would be of great interest in clinical settings. In this study, an adaptive algorithm for tracking fundamental and harmonic component ...

2011

Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation : New Insights from Biophysical Modeling and Signal Processing

Laurent Renaud Uldry

Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac rhythm disorder encountered in clinical practice, often leading to severe complications such as heart failure and stroke. This arrhythmia, increasing in prevalence with age, already affects several millions of ...

EPFL2011

Early temporal and spatial regularization of persistent atrial fibrillation predicts termination and arrhythmia-free outcome

Laurent Renaud Uldry

BACKGROUND Termination of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) is a valuable ablation endpoint but is difficult to anticipate. We evaluated whether temporal and spatial indices of AF regularization predict intraprocedural AF termination and outcome. ...

2011

Study of the effect of rapid pacing of atrial fibrillation on the non-paced atrium

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Lukas Kappenberger

Purpose: Experimental studies showed that local capture of atrial fibrillation (AF) by rapid pacing was possible in humans. However, contradictory observations were reported on its effect at distant atrial sites. The present model-based study investigated ...

2011

Novel complexity measurements in the ECG differentiate persistent from permanent atrial fibrillation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry, Jérôme Sébastien Van Zaen, Lukas Kappenberger

Purpose: Distinguishing persistent from permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) in a reliable way would improve AF patient management, as cardioversion options could be considered appropriately. In this study, complexity measures based on the combined analysis ...

2011

Influence of pacing site on the spatial extent of capture during atrial fibrillation rapid pacing

Jean-Marc Vesin, Laurent Renaud Uldry

2010