Dear Community,
My name is Tomasz Jadczyk. I am a cardiac electrophysiologist at the Medical University of Silesia. My research interests focus on the assessment of electro-mechanics in patients with heart failure. I use the NOGA-XP system, Biosense Webster, to assess electro-mechanical parameters of the left ventricle.
For a reference you may wish to check these articles:
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The influence of scar on the spatio-temporal relationship between electrical and mechanical activation in heart failure patients - influence of scar on the spatio-temporal relationship between electrical and mechanical activation in heart failure patients | EP Europace | Oxford Academic
I found the “processSmartTouchForceData” and “read_forcefile_v2” functions in the OpenEP API Documentation and I am wondering if it is possible to use these options to analyze mechanics from SmartTouch catheter. As a result, I would like to get a NOGA-like map (please see Supplementary Information; Local electromechanical alterations determine the left ventricle rotational dynamics in CRT-eligible heart failure patients | Scientific Reports).
I will be grateful for your feedback.
Kind regards,
Tomasz Jadczyk MD PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiology and Structural Heart Diseases
Medical University of Silesia