Unidirectional Pinning and Hysteresis of Spatially Discordant Alternans in Cardiac Tissue

Details Unidirectional Pinning and Hysteresis of Spatially Discordant Alternans in Cardiac Tissue Unidirectional Pinning and Hysteresis of Spatially Discordant Alternans in Cardiac Tissue

2011-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6636v2

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.108103

Spatially discordant alternans is a widely observed pattern of voltage and calcium signals in cardiac tissue that can precipitate lethal cardiac arrhythmia. Using spatially coupled iterative maps of the beat-to-beat dynamics, we explore this pattern's dynamics in the regime of a calcium-dominated period-doubling instability at the single cell level. We find a novel nonlinear bifurcation associated with the formation of a discontinuous jump in the amplitude of calcium alternans at nodal lines separating discordant regions. We show that this jump unidirectionally pins nodal lines by preventing their motion away from the pacing site following a pacing rate decrease, but permitting motion towards this site following a rate increase. This unidirectional pinning leads to strongly history-dependent nodal line motion that is strongly arrhythmogenic.

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