Issue 2/2020
Content (21 Articles)
Pulmonary vein atrial tachycardia: do we really need to isolate or freeze?
Catherine O’Shea, Dennis H. Lau, Peter M. Kistler, Jonathan M. Kalman, Prashanthan Sanders
COVID-19 and electrophysiology procedures—review, reset, reboot!!!
Naga Venkata K. Pothineni, Pasquale Santangeli, Rajat Deo, Francis E. Marchlinski, Matthew C. Hyman
Recommendations for the organization of electrophysiology and cardiac pacing services during the COVID-19 pandemic
Luis C. Saenz, Antonio Miranda, Ricardo Speranza, Ricardo Alkmim Texeira, Ulises Rojel, Andres Enriquez, Marcio Figuereido
Recommendations for the measurement of the QT interval during the use of drugs for COVID-19 infection treatment. Updatable in accordance with the availability of new evidence
Enrique Asensio, Rafael Acunzo, William Uribe, Eduardo B. Saad, Luis C. Sáenz
The COVID-19 challenge to cardiac electrophysiologists: optimizing resources at a referral center
Patrizio Mazzone, Giovanni Peretto, Andrea Radinovic, Luca Rosario Limite, Alessandra Marzi, Simone Sala, Manuela Cireddu, Pasquale Vegara, Francesca Baratto, Gabriele Paglino, Giuseppe D’Angelo, Lorenzo Cianfanelli, Savino Altizio, Felicia Lipartiti, Antonio Frontera, Caterina Bisceglia, Simone Gulletta, Paolo Della Bella
COVID-19 and cardiac arrhythmias: a global perspective on arrhythmia characteristics and management strategies
Rakesh Gopinathannair, Faisal M. Merchant, Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, Susan P. Etheridge, Suzy Feigofsky, Janet K. Han, Rajesh Kabra, Andrea Natale, Stacy Poe, Sandeep A. Saha, Andrea M. Russo
QT prolongation in a diverse, urban population of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, or azithromycin
Brian C Hsia, Nicolas Greige, Jose A Quiroz, Ahmed S Khokhar, Johanna Daily, Luigi Di Biase, Kevin J Ferrick, John D Fisher, Andrew Krumerman
Esophageal cooling for protection during left atrial ablation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lisa WM Leung, Mark M Gallagher, Pasquale Santangeli, Cory Tschabrunn, Jose M Guerra, Bieito Campos, Jamal Hayat, Folefac Atem, Steven Mickelsen, Erik Kulstad
Temperature drop in thawing phase reflects sufficient ice formation and better outcome of pulmonary vein isolation using second-generation cryoballoon
Takashi Kaneshiro, Naoko Hijioka, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Minoru Nodera, Shinya Yamada, Masashi Kamioka, Yasuchika Takeishi
The efficacy of combination of transcatheter atrial septal defects closure and radiofrequency catheter ablation for the prevention of atrial fibrillation recurrence through bi-atrial reverse remodeling
Masashi Kamioka, Akiomi Yoshihisa, Naoko Hijioka, Minoru Nodera, Shinya Yamada, Takashi Kaneshiro, Masayoshi Oikawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kunii, Yasuchika Takeishi
Clinical and electrophysiological characteristics predicting the re-ablation outcome for atrial fibrillation patients
Changqing Miao, Weizhu Ju, Hongwu Chen, Gang Yang, Fengxiang Zhang, Kai Gu, Mingfang Li, Zidun Wang, Hailei Liu, Minglong Chen
Cardiac magnetic resonance-derived right atrial functional analysis in patients with atrial fibrillation and typical atrial flutter
Esra Gucuk Ipek, Mohammadali Habibi, Tarek Zghaib, Stefan L. Zimmerman, Hugh Calkins, Joao Lima, Saman Nazarian
Ventriculoatrial conduction in patients without high-grade AV block: when is it present?
Claude S. Elayi, Gustavo Morales, Muhammad Butt, Jignesh Shah, Gbolahan Ogunbayo, Naoki Misumida, John Catanzaro, Luigi Di Biase, Andrea Natale, Brian Delisle, Yousef Darrat
Serum tenascin-C levels in atrium predict atrial structural remodeling processes in patients with atrial fibrillation
Yuichiro Shiomi, Miki Yokokawa, Hiroyasu Uzui, Kaori Hisazaki, Tetsuji Morishita, Kentaro Ishida, Yoshitomo Fukuoka, Kanae Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Naoto Tama, Kenichi Kaseno, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Naoki Amaya, Hiroshi Tada
Ultrasound guidance for femoral venous access in electrophysiology procedures—systematic review and meta-analysis
Péter Kupó, Róbert Pap, László Sághy, Dalma Tényi, Alexandra Bálint, Dorottya Debreceni, Indranill Basu-Ray, András Komócsi
WATCHMAN implantation in patients with a history of atrial fibrillation and intracranial hemorrhage
William J. Hucker, Joshua A. Cohen, M. Edip Gurol, E. Kevin Heist, Carola Gianni, Jennifer Galvin, Donita Atkins, Sudha Bommana, Luigi Di Biase, Jeremy Ruskin, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Rodney Horton, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Andrea Natale, Moussa Mansour
“If at first you don’t succeed”: repeat ablations in young patients with supraventricular tachycardia
Ellis Rochelson, Bradley C. Clark, Christopher M. Janson, Scott R. Ceresnak, Lynn Nappo, Robert H. Pass
Severe and uniform bi-atrial remodeling measured by dominant frequency analysis in persistent atrial fibrillation unresponsive to ablation
Adrian Luca, Anthony Pittet, Andréa Buttu, Anna McCann, Jean-Marc Vesin, Patrizio Pascale, Mathieu Le Bloa, Claudia Herrera, Chan-Il Park, Anne Rollin, Philippe Maury, Laurent Roten, Michael Kühne, Florian Spies, Sven Knecht, Christian Sticherling, Etienne Pruvot
Cardioinhibitory syncope: from pathophysiology to treatment—should we think on cardioneuroablation?
Alan Garcia, Manlio F. Marquez, Emilse F. Fierro, Jessica J. Baez, Leyla P. Rockbrand, Jorge Gomez-Flores
His bundle pacing for cardiac resynchronization therapy: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Jinlei Qi, Xinwei Jia, Zhanqi Wang
Rationale and design of a randomized clinical trial to compare two antithrombotic strategies after left atrial appendage occlusion: double antiplatelet therapy vs. apixaban (ADALA study)
Eduardo Josué Flores-Umanzor, Pedro L. Cepas-Guillen, Dabit Arzamendi, Ignacio Cruz-González, Ander Regueiro, Xavier Freixa