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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2017 Oct 3;136(21):2037–2050. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028202

Figure 8. Schematic representation of our working hypothesis.

Figure 8

Increased susceptibility to VA in HFpEF is proposed to be due to action potential prolongation/dispersion and fibrosis, favoring prolonged and heterogeneous repolarization and multiple re-entry circuits. The proposed link to sudden cardiac death is plausible but has not been demonstrated by our data.