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Hypokalaemia prolongs APDs, which predisposes to triggered activity (left). This AP prolongation and reduced refractoriness together form a re-entrant substrate. The use of programmed electrical stimulation can reliably provoke ventricular arrhythmias (right).
Traces reproduced from Tse et al. (2016) [103] with permission.
