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Antonia Sambola, Sigrun Halvorsen, David Adlam, Christian Hassager, Susanna Price, Giuseppe Rosano, Francois Schiele, Lene Holmvang, Marta de Riva, Amina Rakisheva, Patrick Sulzgruber, Eva Swahn
Cardiac emergencies in women, such as acute coronary syndromes, acute heart failure, and cardiac arrest, are associated with a high risk of adverse outcomes and mortality. Although women historically have been significantly underrepresented in clinical studies of these diseases, the guideline-recommended treatment for these emergencies is generally the same for both sexes. Still, women are less likely to receive evidence-based treatment compared to men. Furthermore, specific diseases affecting predominantly or exclusively women, such as spontaneous coronary dissection, myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries, takotsubo cardiomyopathy, and peripartum cardiomyopathy, require specialized attention in terms of both diagnosis and management...
March 2024: Eur Heart J Open
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Daniela Araújo, João P Martins, Stephanie Lopes Ferreira, Sandra Mota, Pedro L Ferreira, Rui Pimenta
INTRODUCTION: One of the biggest obstacles in diagnosing Implant-Associated Infections is the lack of infection criteria and standardized diagnostic methods. These infections present a wide range of symptoms, and their diagnosis can be hampered by the formation of microbial biofilms on the surface of implants. This study aimed to provide insight into the performance of sonication in the diagnosis of infections associated with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices, to help define a consensus on the algorithm for the microbial diagnosis of these infections...
2024: Frontiers in Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Padoemwut Teerawongsakul, Teetouch Ananwattanasuk, Ronpichai Chokesuwattanaskul, Muazzum Shah, Sangeeta Lathkar-Pradhan, Waseem Barham, Hakan Oral, Ranjan K Thakur, Krit Jongnarangsin, Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat
INTRODUCTION: Several implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) programming strategies are applied to minimize ICD therapy, especially unnecessary therapies from supraventricular arrhythmias (SVA). However, it remains unknown whether these optimal programming recommendations only benefit those with SVAs or have any detrimental effects from delayed therapy on those without SVAs. This study aims to assess the impact of SVA on the outcomes of ICD programming based on 2015 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement and 2019 focused update on optimal ICD programming and testing guidelines...
February 21, 2024: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arian Sultan, Piotr Futyma, Andreas Metzner, Ante Anic, Sergio Richter, Laurent Roten, Patrick Badertscher, Giulio Conte, Julian K R Chun
Ventricular tachycardia (VT), and its occurrence, is still one of the main reasons for sudden cardiac death and, therefore, for increased mortality and morbidity foremost in patients with structural heart [Kahle A-K, Jungen C, Alken F-A, Scherschel K, Willems S, Pürerfellner H et al. Management of ventricular tachycardia in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy: contemporary armamentarium. Europace 2022;24:538-51]. Catheter ablation has become a safe and effective treatment option in patients with recurrent VT [Cronin EM, Bogun FM, Maury P, Peichl P, Chen M, Namboodiri N et al...
February 1, 2024: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Wilfried Mullens, Jeroen Dauw, Finn Gustafsson, Alexandre Mebazaa, Jan Steffel, Klaus K Witte, Victoria Delgado, Cecilia Linde, Kevin Vernooy, Stefan D Anker, Ovidiu Chioncel, Davor Milicic, Gerd Hasenfuß, Piotr Ponikowski, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Friedrich Koehler, Frank Ruschitzka, Kevin Damman, Ehud Schwammenthal, Jeffrey M Testani, Faiez Zannad, Michael Böhm, Martin R Cowie, Kenneth Dickstein, Tiny Jaarsma, Gerasimos Filippatos, Maurizio Volterrani, Thomas Thum, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Alain Cohen-Solal, Brenda Moura, Amina Rakisheva, Arsen Ristic, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Sophie Van Linthout, Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti, Gianluigi Savarese, Hadi Skouri, Marianna Adamo, Offer Amir, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Maggie Simpson, Mariya Tokmakova, Arantxa González, Massimo Piepoli, Petar Seferovic, Marco Metra, Andrew J S Coats, Giuseppe M C Rosano
Implantable devices form an integral part of the management of patients with heart failure (HF) and provide adjunctive therapies in addition to cornerstone drug treatment. Although the number of these devices is growing, only few are supported by robust evidence. Current devices aim to improve haemodynamics, improve reverse remodelling, or provide electrical therapy. A number of these devices have guideline recommendations and some have been shown to improve outcomes such as cardiac resynchronization therapy, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and long-term mechanical support...
January 25, 2024: European Journal of Heart Failure
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrea Rosemann, Oliver Senn, Stefan Neuner-Jehle, Stefan Markun, Giuseppe Pichierri, Thomas Rosemann
Due to their advantageous benefit-risk-profile, direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are preferred over vitamin-K-antagonists for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation as well as therapy and secondary prevention of venous thromboembolism. This guideline provides information on the practical use of DOACs, their advantages and disadvantages and limitations. It is based on recommendations from international guidelines (ESC, EHRA, DGA) and adapts them for the general practitioner setting in Switzerland.
December 2023: Praxis
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Amparo Santamaria, Cathy Chen, Paolo Colonna, Christian von Heymann, Manish Saxena, Thomas Vanassche, James Jin, Martin Unverdorben
Patients treated with edoxaban may require diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that involve edoxaban interruption. Although heparin bridging strategies are not recommended, heparin is frequently used in clinical practice. However, whether heparin use decreases thromboembolic risk remains unclear, and the potential for increased periprocedural bleeding remains a concern. Here, we report factors predicting edoxaban interruption and the use of heparin bridging strategies and associated clinical events from Global EMIT-AF/VTE, a multicenter, prospective, noninterventional study (Clinicaltrials...
2023: Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/hemostasis
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Mohamed Dardari, Eliza Cinteza, Corina Maria Vasile, Paul Padovani, Radu Vatasescu
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease of the endocardium, which leads to the appearance of vegetation on the valves, cardiac structures, or, potentially, vascular endothelium of the heart. The risk of IE can be increased more than 140 times by congenital heart disease (50-59% of all IE), particularly if cyanotic. An increase in mortality may result from IE in patients with a complex cardiac pathology or patients with an implanted prosthetic material, most frequently conduits in a pulmonary position. Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) infective endocarditis is a life-threatening complication representing 10% of all cases of endocarditis...
July 27, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Raquel Adeliño, Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold, Laura Perrotta, Martin Manninger, Philippe Vanduynhoven, Martina Nesti, Emilia-Violeta Goanță, Victor Waldmann, Nikola Pavlovic, Michal M Farkowski, Jose M Guerra, Diego Penela, Serge Boveda, Julian K R Chun
INTRODUCTION: Electrophysiology (EP) is a growing field in cardiology, with an increasing involvement of young people. Nevertheless, concerns about radiation exposure and its impact on reproduction and pregnancy may discourage the choice of an EP career. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the level of awareness and main sources of concern about the effects of radiation on reproductive potential and pregnancy, explore the safety measures adopted in different EP Labs and verify the adherence to the current guidelines...
July 27, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aileen M Ferrick, Satish R Raj, Thomas Deneke, Pipin Kojodjojo, Nestor Lopez-Cabanillas, Haruhiko Abe, Serge Boveda, Derek S Chew, Jong-Il Choi, Nikolaos Dagres, Aarti S Dalal, Brynn E Dechert, Camille G Frazier-Mills, Olivia Gilbert, Janet K Han, Sherri Hewit, Christine Kneeland, Starr DeEllen Mirza, Suneet Mittal, Renato Pietro Ricci, Mary Runte, Susan Sinclair, Ricardo Alkmim-Teixeira, Bert Vandenberk, Niraj Varma, Elizabeth Davenport, Vicki Freedenberg, Taya V Glotzer, Jin-Long Huang, Takanori Ikeda, Daniel B Kramer, David Lin, Ulises Rojel-Martínez, Markus Stühlinger, Paul D Varosy
Remote monitoring is beneficial for the management of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices by impacting morbidity and mortality. With increasing numbers of patients using remote monitoring, keeping up with higher volume of remote monitoring transmissions creates challenges for device clinic staff. This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide cardiac electrophysiologists, allied professionals, and hospital administrators in managing remote monitoring clinics. This includes guidance for remote monitoring clinic staffing, appropriate clinic workflows, patient education, and alert management...
June 2023: Journal of Arrhythmia
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Aileen M Ferrick, Satish R Raj, Thomas Deneke, Pipin Kojodjojo, Nestor Lopez-Cabanillas, Haruhiko Abe, Serge Boveda, Derek S Chew, Jong-Il Choi, Nikolaos Dagres, Aarti S Dalal, Brynn E Dechert, Camille G Frazier-Mills, Olivia Gilbert, Janet K Han, Sherri Hewit, Christine Kneeland, Starr DeEllen Mirza, Suneet Mittal, Renato Pietro Ricci, Mary Runte, Susan Sinclair, Ricardo Alkmim-Teixeira, Bert Vandenberk, Niraj Varma, Elizabeth Davenport, Vicki Freedenberg, Taya V Glotzer, Jin-Long Huang, Takanori Ikeda, Daniel B Kramer, David Lin, Ulises Rojel-Martínez, Markus Stühlinger, Paul D Varosy
Remote monitoring is beneficial for the management of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices by impacting morbidity and mortality. With increasing numbers of patients using remote monitoring, keeping up with higher volume of remote monitoring transmissions creates challenges for device clinic staff. This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide cardiac electrophysiologists, allied professionals, and hospital administrators in managing remote monitoring clinics. This includes guidance for remote monitoring clinic staffing, appropriate clinic workflows, patient education, and alert management...
March 30, 2023: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aileen M Ferrick, Satish R Raj, Thomas Deneke, Pipin Kojodjojo, Nestor Lopez-Cabanillas, Haruhiko Abe, Serge Boveda, Derek S Chew, Jong-Il Choi, Nikolaos Dagres, Aarti S Dalal, Brynn E Dechert, Camille G Frazier-Mills, Olivia Gilbert, Janet K Han, Sherri Hewit, Christine Kneeland, Starr DeEllen Mirza, Suneet Mittal, Renato Pietro Ricci, Mary Runte, Susan Sinclair, Ricardo Alkmim-Teixeira, Bert Vandenberk, Niraj Varma, Elizabeth Davenport, Vicki Freedenberg, Taya V Glotzer, Jin-Long Huang, Takanori Ikeda, Daniel B Kramer, David Lin, Ulises Rojel-Martínez, Markus Stühlinger, Paul D Varosy
Remote monitoring is beneficial for the management of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices by impacting morbidity and mortality. With increasing numbers of patients using remote monitoring, keeping up with higher volume of remote monitoring transmissions creates challenges for device clinic staff. This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide cardiac electrophysiologists, allied professionals, and hospital administrators in managing remote monitoring clinics. This includes guidance for remote monitoring clinic staffing, appropriate clinic workflows, patient education, and alert management...
May 19, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Irina Savelieva, Stefano Fumagalli, Rose Anne Kenny, Stefan Anker, Athanase Benetos, Giuseppe Boriani, Jared Bunch, Nikolaos Dagres, Sergio Dubner, Laurent Fauchier, Luigi Ferrucci, Carsten Israel, Hooman Kamel, Deirdre A Lane, Gregory Y H Lip, Niccolò Marchionni, Israel Obel, Ken Okumura, Brian Olshansky, Tatjana Potpara, Martin K Stiles, Juan Tamargo, Andrea Ungar, Jedrzej Kosiuk, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Borislav Dinov, Heidi Estner, Rodrigue Garcia, Francisco Manuel Moscoso Costa, Rachel Lampert, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Ashley Chin, Heliodoro Antonio Rodriguez, Timo Strandberg, Tomasz Grodzicki
There is an increasing proportion of the general population surviving to old age with significant chronic disease, multi-morbidity, and disability. The prevalence of pre-frail state and frailty syndrome increases exponentially with advancing age and is associated with greater morbidity, disability, hospitalization, institutionalization, mortality, and health care resource use. Frailty represents a global problem, making early identification, evaluation, and treatment to prevent the cascade of events leading from functional decline to disability and death, one of the challenges of geriatric and general medicine...
April 15, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pablo Díez-Villanueva, Juan Cosín-Sales, Vanesa Roldán-Schilling, Vivencio Barrios, Diana Riba-Artés, Olga Gavín-Sebastián
Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) have substantially improved anticoagulation. However, data on NOAC use among elderly patients are scarce. We sought to describe NOAC use among elderly AF patients in Spain. We performed a non-interventional, multicenter, multispecialty, cross-sectional study in elderly (≥75 years) AF patients treated with NOACs for stroke prevention. Patients' characteristics by NOAC treatment were compared using standardized differences (SDD). NOAC dosing was classified according to the Spanish summary of products characteristics (SmPC) into appropriate (recommended dose) and inappropriate (under and overdosed)...
February 3, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jie En Valerie Sia, Xuan Lai, Xinyi Wu, Fan Zhang, Haiyan Li, Cheng Cui, Dongyang Liu
INTRODUCTION: Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is one of the major concerns for the clinical use of NOACs in the older adults considering that coexistence of multiple diseases and comorbidity were common. Current guidelines on the DDI management were established based on clinical studies conducted in healthy adults and mainly focus on the Caucasians, whereas systemic and ethnic differences may lead to distinct management in the Chinese older adults. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the impact of aging on the DDI magnitude between P-gp and/or CYP3A4 inhibitors with dabigatran etexilate and rivaroxaban in older adults, providing additional information for the use in clinical practice...
March 1, 2023: European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Konstantinos Iliodromitis, Radoslaw Lenarczyk, Daniel Scherr, Giulio Conte, Michal M Farkowski, Francisco Marin, Javier Garcia-Seara, Stefan Simovic, Tatjana Potpara
Catheter ablation (CA) of atrial fibrillation (AF) is the therapy of choice for the maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with symptomatic AF. Time towards interventional treatment and peri-procedural management of patients undergoing AF ablation may vary in daily practice. The scope of this European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) survey was to report the current clinical practice regarding the management of patients undergoing AF ablation and physician's adherence to the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines and the EHRA/HRS/ECAS expert consensus statement on the CA for AF...
February 16, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Padoemwut Teerawongsakul, Teetouch Ananwattanasuk, Ronpichai Chokesuwattanaskul, Muazzum Shah, Sangeeta Lathkar-Pradhan, Waseem Barham, Hakan Oral, Ranjan K Thakur, Krit Jongnarangsin, Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat
BACKGROUND: While ICD therapy reduction programming strategies are recommended in current multi-society guidelines, concerns remain about a possible trade-off between the benefits of ICD therapy reduction and failure to treat episodes of ventricular arrhythmias. The study is to evaluate the outcomes of primary prevention patients followed in centers with high and low concordance with the 2015 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement and 2019 focused update on optimal ICD programming and testing guidelines...
November 23, 2022: Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology: An International Journal of Arrhythmias and Pacing
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Ana Carolina Schwab, Ante Anic, Michal M Farkowski, Jose Guerra, Konstantinos E Iliodromitis, Kristine Jubele, Rui Providencia, Julian K R Chun, Serge Boveda
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major challenge for the healthcare field. Pulmonary vein isolation is the most effective treatment for the maintenance of sinus rhythm. However, clinical endpoints for the procedure vary significantly among studies. There is no consensus on the definition of recurrence and no clear roadmap on how to deal with recurrences after a failed ablation. The purpose of this study was to perform a survey in order to show how clinicians currently approach this knowledge gap. An online survey, supported by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Scientific Initiatives Committee, was conducted between 1 April 2022 and 8 May 2022...
November 14, 2022: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lars Eckardt, Florian Doldi, Sonia Busch, David Duncker, H Estner, M Kuniss, A Metzner, C Meyer, H-R Neuberger, R Tilz, F Voss, D Steven, P Sommer
INTRODUCTION: This study provides an update of survey-based data providing an overview of interventional electrophysiology over the last decade. Overall infrastructure, procedures, and training opportunities in Germany were assessed. METHODS: By analyzing mandatory quality reports, German cardiology centres performing electrophysiological studies were identified to repeat a questionnaire from 2010 and 2015. RESULTS: A complete questionnaire was returned by 192 centers performing about 75% of all ablations in Germany in 2020...
September 6, 2022: Clinical Research in Cardiology: Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society
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August 27, 2022: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
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