- Reilly, Louise;
- Josvai, Mitchell;
- Kalluri, Manasa;
- Anderson, Corey;
- Ni, Haibo;
- Orland, Kate;
- Lang, Di;
- Glukhov, Alexey;
- Grandi, Eleonora;
- Eckhardt, Lee
Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) is an unrefined diagnosis representing a heterogeneous patient group without a structural or genetic definition. IVF treatment is not mechanistic-based due to the lack of experimental patient-models. We sought to create a methodology to assess cellular arrhythmia mechanisms for IVF as a proof-of-concept study. Using IVF patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, we integrate electrophysiological optical mapping with computational modeling to characterize the cellular phenotype. This approach flips the traditional paradigm using a biophysically detailed computational model to solve the problem inversely. Insight into the cellular mechanisms of this patients IVF phenotype could also serve as a therapeutic testbed.