Association between epicardial adipose tissue and embolic stroke after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Endpoints confirming block in the critical isthmus in sinus rhythm and with pace mapping have not been established. METHODS AND RESULTS:A 44-year-old man with a history of Tetralogy of Fallot presented with recurrent ventricular tachycardia (VT). Entrainment mapping was consistent with a macroreentrant ci...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Bala R,Dhruvakumar S,Latif SA,Marchlinski FE

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Electrophysiological mapping (EPM) in coronary sinus (CS) branches is feasible for guiding LV lead placement to the optimal, latest activated site at cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) procedures. However, whether this procedure optimizes the response to CRT has not been demonstrated. This study was t...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Liang Y,Yu H,Zhou W,Xu G,Sun YI,Liu R,Wang Z,Han Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cerebral embolism and stroke are feared complications of left atrial catheter ablation such as pulmonary vein (PV) ablation. In order to assess the thrombogenicity of left atrial catheter ablation, knowledge of both clinically evident as well as silent cerebral embolism is important. The aim of the current...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Lickfett L,Hackenbroch M,Lewalter T,Selbach S,Schwab JO,Yang A,Balta O,Schrickel J,Bitzen A,Lüderitz B,Sommer T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Even though diffuse T wave inversion and prolongation of the QT interval in the surface electrocardiogram (ECG) have been consistently reported in patients with transient stress-induced left ventricular apical ballooning (AB), ventricular repolarization has not yet been systematically investigated in this cli...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Bonnemeier H,Ortak J,Bode F,Kurowski V,Reppel M,Weitz G,Barantke M,Schunkert H,Wiegand UK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Following conversion of atrial fibrillation (AF), QT interval transiently and variably prolongs and can trigger torsades de pointes (TdP). However, quantitative analysis of risk in this setting is difficult because cycle length variability during AF makes rate-corrected QT impossible to calculate. In this ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Darbar D,Hardin B,Harris P,Roden DM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perforation during catheter procedures in either the atrium or ventricle is relatively uncommon, but potentially fatal if tamponade ensues. This study analyzes the occurrence and outcomes of cardiac perforation during catheter-based radiofrequency ablation procedures in the left atrium. METHODS:All patients...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Bunch TJ,Asirvatham SJ,Friedman PA,Monahan KH,Munger TM,Rea RF,Sinak LJ,Packer DL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After being struck by a car at the age of 7, an otherwise healthy boy developed recalcitrant, albeit hemodynamically, well-tolerated ventricular tachycardia. An electrophysiological study with 3-dimensional electroanatomic mapping was performed under transesophageal echocardiographic guidance at 10 years of age. Nonau...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Horduna I,Dubuc M,Rochon AG,Khairy P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovations in radiofrequency (RF) ablation and nonablative techniques have led to significant advances in addressing complex arrhythmogenic substrates for a variety of cardiac arrhythmias. Anatomical challenges, deep substrate, and mid-myocardial locations may pose difficulties and decrease success rates using routin...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Sandhu A,Nguyen DT

更新日期：2020-01-01 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:The vein of Marshall (VOM), which exists along the left lateral isthmus (LLI), constitutes a muscular connection between the coronary sinus (CS) and the left atrium (LA). We hypothesized that anatomical variation of the VOM affects the bidirectional block of LLI and the clinical outcome in patients with nonp...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Choi JI,Pak HN,Park JH,Choi EJ,Kim SK,Kwak JJ,Jang JK,Hwang C,Kim YH

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vagus nerve activity can change heart rate substantially within one cardiac cycle, and the chronotropic effects decay almost completely within one cardiac cycle after cessation of vagal activity. The ability of the vagus nerves to regulate heart rate beat by beat can be explained in large part by the speed at which th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Levy MN,Yang T,Wallick DW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The nature of the atrial substrate thought to contribute toward maintaining atrial fibrillation (AF) outside the pulmonary veins remains poorly defined. Therefore, our objective was to determine whether patients with paroxysmal and persistent AF have an abnormal electroanatomic substrate within the left at...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Teh AW,Kistler PM,Lee G,Medi C,Heck PM,Spence SJ,Sparks PB,Morton JB,Kalman JM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of initial transient success during ablation for typical AV nodal reentrant tachycardia utilizing traditional right-sided approaches, followed by recurrence of the same tachycardia and an ultimately successful ablation on the posteromedial mitral annulus. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Altemose GT,Scott LR,Miller JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptom recurrence following sinus node modification (SNM) for inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) remains significant despite achieving acute procedural success. The impact of non-IST tachyarrhythmias on symptom recurrence remains poorly characterized. OBJECTIVES:The objective was to determine the preval...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Frankel DS,Lin D,Anastasio N,Mountantonakis SE,Dixit S,Gerstenfeld EP,Hutchinson MD,Riley MP,Marchlinski FE,Callans DJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The incidence and characteristics of dissociated arrhythmia confined to the pulmonary vein (PV) following disconnection have not been described in a large number of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. METHODS AND RESULTS:This was a prospective study of 152 patients (29 female, mean age 51 +/- 11...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Weerasooriya R,Jaïs P,Scavée C,Macle L,Shah DC,Arentz T,Salerno JA,Raybaud F,Choi KJ,Hocini M,Clémenty J,Haïssaguerre M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pacer-Cardioverter-Defibrillator. This article reviews the function of the pacer-cardioverter-defibrillator (PCD). Detection of ventricular arrhythmias occurs in two programmable zones, with onset and stability modifiers available to diminish overdetection of sinus tachycardia and atrial fibrillation, respectively. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Friedman PA,Stanton MS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Anatomic and electrical connections between the left atrium and right atrium (RA) have been described. The relationship between coronary sinus (CS) pacing site and RA activation has not been examined. METHODS AND RESULTS:Fifteen anesthetized swine underwent high-density noncontact mapping of the RA during...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Betts TR,Ho SY,Sanchez-Quintana D,Roberts PR,Anderson RH,Morgan JM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 31-year-old woman with tricuspid atresia and a palliative Waterston shunt presented with intractable poorly tolerated supraventricular tachycardia. Electrophysiologic evaluation was consistent with AV nodal reentrant tachycardia. The fast pathway region was mapped electroanatomically during tachycardia and with cons...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Khairy P,Seslar SP,Triedman JK,Cecchin F

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thrombi form mainly in the left rather than the right atria of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the reason of this predilection being unknown. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether atrial-specific differences in endothelial damage, leukocyte activation, platelet stimulation, ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Jesel L,Arentz T,Herrera-Siklody C,Trenk D,Zobairi F,Abbas M,Weber R,Minners J,Toti F,Morel O

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The genesis of repolarization abnormalities of ECG waveforms in atrial septal defect (ASD), which typically is characterized by right ventricular (RV) volume overload, has not been explored, particularly in association with postoperative hemodynamic improvement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ef...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Asano Y,Izumida N,Kawano S,Sawanobori T,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of 2-year-old baby with compound heterozygosity for paternal and maternal alleles mutation of α-subunit of the cardiac sodium channel (SCN5A), sinus node dysfunction, atrial flutter recurrences, and drug induced long-QT syndrome. In this setting, we chose at first to perform linear ablation of cav...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： De Filippo P,Ferrari P,Iascone M,Racheli M,Senni M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Manual, point-by-point electroanatomical mapping requires the operator to directly evaluate each point during map construction. Consequently, point collection can be a slow process. An automated 3D mapping system was developed with the goal of improving key mapping metrics, including map completion time an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Ptaszek LM,Moon B,Rozen G,Mahapatra S,Mansour M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Disturbance of sympathetic and vagal nervous system participates in the pathogenesis of hypertension and atrial fibrillation (AF). Renal denervation (RDN) can modulate autonomic nervous activity and reduce blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients. We aimed to evaluate the effect of RDN combined with pu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Chen S,Kiuchi MG,Yin Y,Liu S,Schratter A,Acou WJ,Meyer C,Pürerfellner H,Chun KRJ,Schmidt B

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About one fifth of all deaths occur suddenly and unexpectedly, often as the first manifestation of heart disease. Several tests have been developed during the past 2 decades for risk stratification of such an event, but only a minority of victims can be identified as being at high risk before sudden death occurs. Impr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Wellens HJ,Gorgels AP,de Munter H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-efficacy assessment of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy has proved contentious and may have limited uptake of ICD therapy, particularly in Europe. Published modeling assessments are too inaccurate to determine clinical practice, and assessments based on clinical studies are incomplete (from th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Morgan JM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Atrial dilation and rapid pacing reduce atrial effective refractory periods (AERPs), thereby increasing the susceptibility to sustained atrial fibrillation (AF) in Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts. It is unclear whether similar pathophysiologic mechanisms are operative in short-term electrophysiologic ch...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Zarse M,Stellbrink C,Athanatou E,Robert J,Schotten U,Hanrath P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) remains a challenging clinical problem with poor outcomes and few effective treatments. Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been associated with functional TR. We sought to determine whether restoring sinus rhythm through catheter ablation of AF can decrease the degree of T...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Markman TM,Plappert T,De Feria Alsina A,Levin M,Amankwah N,Sheth S,Gertz ZM,Schaller RD,Marchlinski FE,Rame JE,Frankel DS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report the case of a 36-year-old patient with a longstanding history of paroxysmal tachycardia. METHODS AND RESULTS:During the electrophysiological study, the H-V interval was prolonged in sinus rhythm, and a second potential (H'') with distal to proximal activation pattern was recorded in the region o...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Sarkozy A,Boussy T,Chierchia GB,Geelen P,Brugada P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial flutter is due to large single reentrant loops, typically oriented around the caval veins and a line of functional conduction block in between. These reentrant circuits can easily be terminated by properly timed extra beats colliding in the antidromic direction with the reentrant orthodromic wavefront and being...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Schoels W,Becker R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute failure of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) occur in 10%-20% of patients and is partly attributed to inadequate lesion depth acquired with standard ablation protocols. Half-normal saline (HNS)-irrigation is a promising strategy to improve the success rate of VA ablation. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology

authors： Chung FP,Vicera JJB,Lin YJ,Chang SL,Lo LW,Hu YF,Lin CY,Tuan TC,Chao TF,Liao JN,Chang TY,Salim S,Liu CM,Chuang CM,Chen CC,Chin CG,Wu CI,Chou CY,Chen SA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00