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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Teodor Serban, Elisa Hennings, Ivo Strebel, Sven Knecht, Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz, Philipp Krisai, Rebecca Arnet, Gian Völlmin, Stefan Osswald, Christian Sticherling, Michael Kühne, Patrick Badertscher
INTRODUCTION: Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) frequently coexist. Prediction of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) recovery after catheter ablation (CA) for AF remains difficult. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the value of biomarkers, alone and in conjunction with the Antwerp score to predict LVEF recovery after CA for AF. METHODS: Patients undergoing CA for AF with depressed LVEF(<50%) were included. Plasma levels of 13 biomarkers were measured immediately prior to CA...
April 11, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thomas Kueffer, Robin Stettler, Jens Maurhofer, Antonio Madaffari, Anita Stefanova, Salik Ur Rehman Iqbal, Gregor Thalmann, Nikola A Kozhuharov, Oskar Galuszka, Helge Servatius, Andreas Haeberlin, Fabian Noti, Hildegard Tanner, Laurent Roten, Tobias Reichlin
BACKGROUND: Pulsed-field ablation (PFA) has shown promising data in terms of safety and procedural efficiency for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI), with similar long-term outcomes compared to radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and cryoballoon ablation (CBA) in patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) OBJECTIVE: To compare the procedural and long-term outcomes of patients with persistent AF undergoing PVI using PFA, CBA, or RFA. METHODS: Consecutive patients with persistent AF undergoing a first PVI with PFA, CBA, or RFA were included...
April 11, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hung-Jui Chuang, Lung-Chun Lin, An-Li Yu, Yen-Bin Liu, Lian-Yu Lin, Hui-Chun Huang, Li-Ting Ho, Ling-Ping Lai, Wen-Jone Chen, Yi-Lwung Ho, Ssu-Yuan Chen, Chih-Chieh Yu
BACKGROUND: Exercise intolerance is a common symptom associated with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, echocardiographic markers that can predict impaired exercise capacity are lacking. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between echocardiographic parameters and exercise capacity assessed via cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in patients with AF. METHODS: This single-center prospective study enrolled patients with AF who underwent echocardiography and CPET to evaluate exercise capacity at a tertiary center for AF management from 2020 to 2022...
April 11, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ioannis Doundoulakis, Luigi Pannone, Sotirios Chiotis, Domenico Giovanni Della Rocca, Antonio Sorgente, Panagiotis Tsioufis, Alvise Del Monte, Giampaolo Vetta, Christos Piperis, Ingrid Overeinder, Gezim Bala, Alexandre Almorad, Erwin Ströker, Juan Sieira, Mark La Meir, Pedro Brugada, Dimitrios Tsiachris, Andrea Sarkozy, Gian Battista Chierchia, Carlo de Asmundis
BACKGROUND: A rare gene variant in SCN5A can be found in approximately 20-25% of patients with Brugada syndrome (BrS). OBJECTIVE: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to evaluate: (1) differences in clinical characteristics of BrS patients with and without SCN5A rare variants and (2) the prognostic role of SCN5A for ventricular arrhythmias in BrS. METHODS: PubMed and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) were systematically searched from inception to January 2024 to identify all relevant studies...
April 11, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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REVIEW
Stylianos Tzeis, Edward P Gerstenfeld, Jonathan Kalman, Eduardo Saad, Alireza Sepehri Shamloo, Jason G Andrade, Chirag R Barbhaiya, Tina Baykaner, Serge Boveda, Hugh Calkins, Ngai-Yin Chan, Minglong Chen, Shih-Ann Chen, Nikolaos Dagres, Ralph J Damiano, Tom De Potter, Isabel Deisenhofer, Nicolas Derval, Luigi Di Biase, Mattias Duytschaever, Katia Dyrda, Gerhard Hindricks, Meleze Hocini, Young-Hoon Kim, Mark la Meir, Jose Luis Merino, Gregory F Michaud, Andrea Natale, Isabelle Nault, Santiago Nava, Takashi Nitta, Mark O'Neill, Hui-Nam Pak, Jonathan P Piccini, Helmut Pürerfellner, Tobias Reichlin, Luis Carlos Saenz, Prashanthan Sanders, Richard Schilling, Boris Schmidt, Gregory E Supple, Kevin L Thomas, Claudio Tondo, Atul Verma, Elaine Y Wan
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007, the first joint expert consensus document was issued, guiding healthcare professionals involved in catheter or surgical AF ablation. Mounting research evidence and technological advances have resulted in a rapidly changing landscape in the field of catheter and surgical AF ablation, thus stressing the need for regularly updated versions of this partnership which were issued in 2012 and 2017...
April 13, 2024: Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology: An International Journal of Arrhythmias and Pacing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Denis Qeska, Feng Qiu, Ragavie Manoragavan, Harindra C Wijeysundera, Christopher C Cheung
BACKGROUND: Rhythm control is a cornerstone of atrial fibrillation (AF) management. Shorter time between diagnosis of AF and receipt of catheter ablation is associated with greater rates of therapy success. Prior work considered diagnosis-to-ablation time as a binary or categorical variable and did not consider the unique risk profile of patients once a referral for ablation is made. OBJECTIVES: Comprehensively assess the impact of diagnosis-to-ablation and referral-to-ablation time on post-procedural outcomes at a population level...
April 10, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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EDITORIAL
Manon Kloosterman, K Peter Loh, Toon A B van Veen
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April 10, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Masaya Tachi, Akihito Tanaka, Tsubasa Teraoka, Tappei Furuta, Etsushi Matsushita, Kazunori Hayashi, Masafumi Shimojo, Satoshi Yanagisawa, Yasuya Inden, Toyoaki Murohara
BACKGROUND: Complications of venous vascular access are usually non-fatal but are the most common complications after transvenous catheter intervention. Vascular closure devices (VCD) have recently become available for venous closure. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of real-time ultrasound-guided venous closure using suture-mediated VCD in patients who underwent catheter ablation. METHODS: This single-center observational study enrolled 226 consecutive patients who underwent elective catheter ablation with femoral venipuncture...
April 10, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siddharth Agarwal, Charu Debnath, Muhammad Bilal Munir, Christopher V DeSimone, Abhishek Deshmukh, Zain Ul Abideen Asad
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 10, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fabian Jordan, Sven Knecht, Corinne Isenegger, Rebecca Arnet, Philipp Krisai, Gian Völlmin, Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz, David Spreen, Stefan Osswald, Christian Sticherling, Michael Kühne, Patrick Badertscher
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 10, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael R Gold, Angelo Auricchio, Christophe Leclercq, Nicholas Wold, Kenneth M Stein, Kenneth A Ellenbogen
BACKGROUND: The utility of atrioventricular (AV) optimization (AVO) algorithms remains in question. A substudy of the SMART-AV trial found patients with prolonged interventricular (RV-LV) delays ≥70 ms were more likely to benefit from CRT with AVO. The SMART-CRT trial evaluated AVO based on these results, but the study was underpowered. OBJECTIVE: To increase statistical power, data from SMART-AV patients meeting the inclusion criteria of RV-LV ≥70 ms were pooled with data from SMART-CRT to reassess AVO...
March 27, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Roy H Lan, Eduardo Perez-Guerrero, Mohammad Saeed, Marco V Perez
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 9, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maximilian Moersdorf, Jan G P Tijssen, Nassir F Marrouche, Harry J G M Crijns, Angelika Costard-Jaeckle, Leonard Bergau, Gerhard Hindricks, Nikolaos Dagres, Samuel Sossalla, Rene Schramm, Henrik Fox, Thomas Fink, Mustapha El Hamriti, Vanessa Sciacca, Frank Konietschke, Volker Rudolph, Jan Gummert, Philipp Sommer, Christian Sohns
BACKGROUND: The CASTLE-HTx trial demonstrated the benefit of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation compared to medical therapy in decreasing mortality, need for left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation or heart transplantation (HTx) in patients with end-stage heart failure (HF). OBJECTIVES: The aim of this analysis was to identify risk factors related to adverse outcomes in patients with end-stage HF and to assess the impact of ablation. METHODS: The CASTLE-HTx protocol randomized 194 patients with end-stage HF and AF to ablation versus medical therapy...
April 6, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valter Bianchi, Pietro Francia, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Stefano Viani, Gerardo Nigro, Mauro Biffi, Paolo De Filippo, Luca Ottaviano, Federico Migliore, Alessandro Vicentini, Mariolina Lovecchio, Sergio Valsecchi, Antonio D'Onofrio, Pietro Palmisano
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 9, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
SVT with a variable RP relationship but without a change in the cycle length: What is the mechanism?
Sunil K Vasireddi, Mannat Badhwar, Gerilyn Schott, Melvin Scheinman
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 9, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jinlin Zhang, Guanghui Cheng, Chenggang Deng, Anquan Zhao
BACKGROUND: Different types of recurrent atrial tachycardias (ATs) following Cox-Maze procedures have been reported, while biatrial tachycardia (BiAT) have not been systematically analyzed. OBJECTIVE: In the present study, we retrospectively investigated the electrophysiological characteristics of BiATs after Cox-Maze procedures by using an ultrahigh-density mapping system. METHODS: Among a consecutive 76 patients who underwent catheter ablation of AT after Cox-Maze procedures, 12 BiATs were identified...
April 9, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Finn Åkerström, Emmanouil Charitakis, Astrid Paul-Nordin, Frieder Braunschweig, Leif Friberg, Fariborz Tabrizi, Mats Jensen-Urstad, Nikola Drca
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with the development of dementia and observational studies have shown that oral anticoagulation (OAC) and catheter ablation reduce dementia risk. However, such studies did not consistently report on periprocedural anticoagulation and long term OAC coverage, for which reason the separate effect of AF ablation on dementia risk could not be established. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the protective effect of AF ablation in large cohort who received optimized anticoagulation and compared them with patients who were managed medically...
April 9, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hiroshi Miyama, Nobuhiro Ikemura, Takehiro Kimura, Yoshinori Katsumata, Shuhei Yamashita, Koki Yamaoka, Susumu Ibe, Otoya Sekine, Ikuko Ueda, Iwao Nakamura, Koji Negishi, Shun Kohsaka, Seiji Takatsuki, Masaki Ieda
BACKGROUND: Various treatment approaches for atrial fibrillation (AF) have demonstrated improved health status, yet the significance of these therapeutic interventions in individual patients remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate health status changes in patients with early AF, focusing on those who experience clinically significant deterioration following treatment initiation. METHODS: We analyzed data from a multicenter, prospective registry of newly diagnosed patients with AF...
April 8, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reina Tonegawa-Kuji, Kenichiro Yamagata, Koshiro Kanaoka, Akinori Wakamiya, Yuko Y Inoue, Koji Miyamoto, Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Eiji Kiyohara, Kengo Kusano
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 8, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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Stylianos Tzeis, Edward P Gerstenfeld, Jonathan Kalman, Eduardo Saad, Alireza Sepehri Shamloo, Jason G Andrade, Chirag R Barbhaiya, Tina Baykaner, Serge Boveda, Hugh Calkins, Ngai-Yin Chan, Minglong Chen, Shih-Ann Chen, Nikolaos Dagres, Ralph J Damiano, Tom De Potter, Isabel Deisenhofer, Nicolas Derval, Luigi Di Biase, Mattias Duytschaever, Katia Dyrda, Gerhard Hindricks, Meleze Hocini, Young-Hoon Kim, Mark la Meir, Jose Luis Merino, Gregory F Michaud, Andrea Natale, Isabelle Nault, Santiago Nava, Takashi Nitta, Mark O'Neill, Hui-Nam Pak, Jonathan P Piccini, Helmut Pürerfellner, Tobias Reichlin, Luis Carlos Saenz, Prashanthan Sanders, Richard Schilling, Boris Schmidt, Gregory E Supple, Kevin L Thomas, Claudio Tondo, Atul Verma, Elaine Y Wan
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 5, 2024: Heart Rhythm: the Official Journal of the Heart Rhythm Society
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