It is widely believed that the pulmonary veins (PVs) of the left atrium play the central role in the generation of anatomically induced atrial reentry but its mechanism has not been analytically explained. To understand this mechanism, a new analytic approach is proposed by adapting the geometric relative acceleration analysis from spacetime physics based on the hypothesis that a large relative acceleration can translate to a dramatic increase in the curvature of a wavefront and subsequently to conduction failure. By verifying the strong dependency of the propagational direction and the magnitude of anisotropy for conduction failure, this analytic method reveals that a unidirectional block can be generated by asymmetric propagation toward the PVs. This model is validated by computational tests in a T-shaped domain, computational simulations for three-dimensional atrial reentry and previous in-silico reports for anatomically induced atrial reentry.

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