Parasympathetic cardiac nerve stimulation with implanted coronary sinus lead.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recent defibrillation studies show that electric fields interact with reentrant activity in myocardial tissue through virtual electrode polarization (VEP). This study focuses on determining how VEP relates to the creation and survival of postshock phase singularities in cardiac tissue and demonstrating tha...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Eason J,Trayanova N

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence that antiarrhythmic compounds that act by slowing conduction velocity increase mortality in patients with cardiac disease is now compelling. Emphasis is now shifting to agents that act by lengthening repolarization and have additional antiadrenergic properties. There is preliminary evidence that pure Clas...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Singh BN

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A male patient with an atriofascicular pathway underwent catheter ablation of the atriofascicular pathway during atrial fibrillation. METHODS AND RESULTS:The patient had preexcited atrial fibrillation both clinically and repeatedly during electrophysiologic study. A preexcited tachycardia with a 1:1 AV re...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Miller JM,Harper GR,Rothman SA,Hsia HH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bileaflet mitral valve prolapse (BiMVP) is common among survivors of otherwise unexplained sudden cardiac death, but prognostic implications of BiMVP are unknown. This study evaluated whether patients with BiMVP are at higher risk for ventricular dysrhythmias, ICD placement, or death compared to controls w...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Nordhues BD,Siontis KC,Scott CG,Nkomo VT,Ackerman MJ,Asirvatham SJ,Noseworthy PA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several techniques are used for AF ablation, but no general consensus exists as to which technique is the most effective. At our center, we have developed a technique for isolating the pulmonary veins (PVs) at their antrum. The technique is guided by intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and mapping with a circular (Las...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Verma A,Marrouche NF,Natale A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent arrhythmia seen in clinical practice. Until recently, antiarrhythmic medications have been the only commonly employed treatment for maintaining sinus rhythm. However, antiarrhythmic medications have a modest long-term efficacy and the potential for serious side...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Nair GM,Nery PB,Diwakaramenon S,Healey JS,Connolly SJ,Morillo CA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Beta-blockers are widely used to prevent the lethal cardiac events associated with the long QT syndrome (LQTS), especially in KCNQ1-related LQTS (LQT1) patients. Some LQT1 patients, however, are refractory to this therapy. METHODS AND RESULTS:Eighteen symptomatic LQTS patients (12 families) were genetical...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Kobori A,Sarai N,Shimizu W,Nakamura Y,Murakami Y,Makiyama T,Ohno S,Takenaka K,Ninomiya T,Fujiwara Y,Matsuoka S,Takano M,Noma A,Kita T,Horie M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Accurate identification of slow conducting regions in patients with scar-related atrial tachycardia (AT) is difficult using conventional electrogram annotation for cardiac electroanatomic mapping (EAM). Estimating delays between neighboring mapping sites is a potential option for activation map computation...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Vicera JJB,Lin YJ,Lee PT,Chang SL,Lo LW,Hu YF,Chung FP,Lin CY,Chang TY,Tuan TC,Chao TF,Liao JN,Wu CI,Liu CM,Lin CH,Chuang CM,Chen CC,Chin CG,Liu SH,Cheng WH,Tai LP,Huang SH,Chou CY,Lugtu I,Liu CH,Chen SA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repeated freezing (bonus applications) during cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has been suggested to improve lesion durability. However, the long-term clinical effects of repeated freezing have not been investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS:A total of 51 patients (pts) with paroxysmal atrial fibrillat...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Chun KR,Fürnkranz A,Köster I,Metzner A,Tönnis T,Wohlmuth P,Wissner E,Schmidt B,Ouyang F,Kuck KH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with cardiac arrhythmias are generally instructed to avoid caffeine intake. A comprehensive evaluation of the electrophysiological effects of caffeine on atrial and ventricular tissues in humans has not previously been performed. METHODS AND RESULTS:Eighty patients (31 men, mean age 49 ± 14 years...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Lemery R,Pecarskie A,Bernick J,Williams K,Wells GA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ventricular arrhythmias are a common feature in patients with mitral valve prolapse. In an attempt to determine the origin and underlying electrophysiologic mechanism, we describe a patient with ventricular fibrillation, exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia (VT), and, at the time of diagnosis, prolapse...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Wilde AA,Düren DR,Hauer RN,deBakker JM,Bakker PF,Becker AE,Janse MJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an uncommon cardiomyopathy most classically associated with mutations in genes encoding desmosomal proteins. Recent literature has identified mutations in several non-desmosomal proteins including lamins that may result in the ARVC phenotype. We describe a pati...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Liang JJ,Grogan M,Ackerman MJ,Goodsell K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The right inferior pulmonary vein (RIPV) accounts as the most frequently reconnected vein after pulmonary vein isolation using second-generation cryoballoon ablation (CB-A). Our objective was to assess anatomic predictors of late RIPV reconnection based on preprocedural computed tomography scan. METHODS:P...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Terasawa M,Chierchia GB,Takarada K,Rizzo A,Maj R,Borio G,Osório TG,Scala O,Galli A,Al Housari M,Tanaka K,Sieira J,Brugada P,de Asmundis C,Ströker E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) originating from the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) is rare. Previously reported were two cases of LVOT tachycardia which were treated with radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation through endocardial aortomitral continuity. We report here a case of a repetitive ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Shimoike E,Ohnishi Y,Ueda N,Maruyama T,Kaji Y

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the entrapment of an ablation catheter by chordae tendineae in the mitral valve during radiofrequency (RF) ablation of ventricular tachycardia. The entrapped tip had to be removed via open surgery. Great care must be taken when performing radiofrequency ablation around the mitral valve apparatus. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Kim KH,Choi KJ,Kim SH,Nam GB,Kim YH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of radiofrequency energy to arrhythmogenic substrates after careful cardiac mapping could ensure a high success rate in eliminating certain types of tachyarrhythmias. Future studies of catheter ablation will focus on how to improve ablation efficacy and achieve a better result in various types of tachyarrh...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Chen SA,Chiang CE,Tai CT,Lee SH,Chang MS

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ablation of atrial tachycardia (AT) that occurs after cardiac surgery or prior ablation often requires complex lesion sets. In combination with the pre-existing atrial scar, these lesion sets may result in inadvertent intra-atrial conduction block. This study reports the phenomenon of incidental isolation of...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Markowitz SM,Choi DY,Daian F,Liu CF,Cheung JW,Thomas G,Ip JE,Lerman BB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cryothermal, HIFU, and laser catheter-based balloon technologies have been developed to simplify ablation for AF. Initial enthusiasm for their widespread use has been dampened by phrenic nerve (PN) injury. The interaction between PN and pulmonary vein (PV) geometry contributing to PN injury is unclear. ME...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Okumura Y,Henz BD,Bunch TJ,Dalegrave C,Johnson SB,Packer DL

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The mechanisms by which atrial stretch favors the development of a substrate for atrial fibrillation (AF) are not fully understood. In this study, the role of stretch-induced conduction changes in the creation of a proarrhythmic substrate has been investigated by quantifying the spatial distribution of loc...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Ravelli F,Masè M,del Greco M,Marini M,Disertori M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is associated with improvement in the quality of life, hospitalization rates, and mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and evidence of the right ventricle-left ventricle (RV-LV) desynchrony. Implant failure rates and patient outcomes have improved with the adv...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Sinno MC,Carrigan T,Hays JC

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrial tachycardias (ATs) are commonly observed following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim of this study was to identify ECG characteristics that differentiate focal from macroreentrant ATs after circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (CPVI). METHODS AND RESULTS:One hundred and twent...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Chang SL,Tsao HM,Lin YJ,Lo LW,Hu YF,Tuan TC,Tsai WC,Chang CJ,Suenari K,Huang SY,Tai CT,Li CH,Chao TF,Wu TJ,Chen SA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a progressive disease in which arrhythmia-induced remodeling facilitates evolution from paroxysmal AF to persistent and permanent AF. Changes in electrical, structural, and contractile properties of cardiac tissue that are thought to underlie AF maintenance and progression are reviewed. Als...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Cohen M,Naccarelli GV

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A functional region of slow conduction located in the inferior right atrium has been postulated to be critical to the induction and maintenance of typical human atrial flutter. We reexamined the potential role of functional conduction delay in the annular isthmus between the tricuspid valve and the inferio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Kinder C,Kall J,Kopp D,Rubenstein D,Burke M,Wilber D

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Treatment refractory ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) are often driven and exacerbated by heightened sympathetic tone. We aim to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies of a temporary percutaneous stellate ganglion block (SGB) on VA burden and defibrillation episodes in patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Fudim M,Boortz-Marx R,Ganesh A,Waldron NH,Qadri YJ,Patel CB,Milano CA,Sun AY,Mathew JP,Piccini JP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recently, a medical advisory was issued regarding the Riata and Riata ST silicone endocardial defibrillator leads (St. Jude Medical, Sylmar, CA, USA) addressing the issue of conductor cables extruding in an "inside-out" fashion from the main body of the lead. However, little data exist to guide our managem...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Shen S,Bhave P,Giedrimas E,Patel T,Arora R,Chicos AB,Goldberger JJ,Ilkhanoff L,Kim MH,Lin AC,Passman R,Lee R,Knight BP,Kim SS

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:An early afterdepolarization (EAD)-induced triggered beat is thought to precipitate torsade de pointes (TdP) in the long QT syndrome (LQTS). Previous studies demonstrated the development of EAD activity and dispersion of repolarization under LQT2 (reduced I(Kr)) and LQT3 (augmented late I(Na)), but not LQT...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Burashnikov A,Antzelevitch C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 71-year-old man with two atrial tachycardias evolving simultaneously and independently in two dissociated regions after extensive ablation for chronic atrial fibrillation. One tachycardia was a focal tachycardia originating from the right inferior pulmonary vein and activating the posterior lef...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Matsuo S,Lim KT,Knecht S,Arantes L,Haïssaguerre M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Little is known about the incidence and timing of reactive pericardial collections developing after left atrial catheter ablation (LACA), and when and if transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) should be performed routinely in these patients postprocedure. METHODS AND RESULTS:Two hundred consecutive LACA pat...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Kalla M,Rajappan K,Kalra S,Thomas G,Redpath C,Earley MJ,Sporton SC,Schilling RJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promise of atomic (scanning) force microscopy (AFM) for cardiovascular research is enormous. The AFM images by using a sharp cantilever tip to sense the repulsive and attractive forces between the tip and the sample surface. The force of interaction is kept constant while raster scanning, resulting in images of th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Arnsdorf MF,Xu S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-year-old man presented with progressive fatigue. Physical examination and ECG revealed severe sinus bradycardia. Echocardiography showed features of noncompaction cardiomyopathy and moderate aortic valve regurgitation. We hypothesized that the chronic volume overload exaggerated by prolonged diastole due to the b...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Caliskan K,Balk AH,Jordaens L,Szili-Torok T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00