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In the past two decades, a great number of studies focused on myocardial ischemia and MI individually, and showed that the occurrence of reentrant arrhythmias is often associated with myocardial ischemia or MI. However, arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the tissue with various degrees of remodeling in the ischemic heart have not been fully understood. In this study, biophysical detailed single-cell models of ischemia 1a, 1b, and MI were developed to mimic the electrophysiological remodeling at different stages of ACS. 2D tissue models with different distributions of ischemia and MI areas were constructed to investigate the mechanisms of the initiation of reentrant waves during the progression of ischemia. Simulation results in 2D tissues showed that the vulnerable windows (VWs) in simultaneous presence of multiple ischemic conditions were associated with the dynamics of wave propagation in the tissues with each single pathological condition. In the tissue with multiple pathological conditions, reentrant waves were mainly induced by two different mechanisms: one is the heterogeneity along the excitation wavefront, especially the abrupt variation in conduction velocity (CV) across the border of ischemia 1b and MI, and the other is the decreased safe factor (SF) for conduction at the edge of the tissue in MI region which is attributed to the increased excitation threshold of MI region. Finally, the reentrant wave was observed in a 3D model with a scar reconstructed from MRI images of a MI patient. 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