Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Septal coronary vein infringement during LBBAP

• Case Reports

Louisa O’Neill, Kris Gillis, Jean-Yyes Wielandts, Benjamin De Becker, Sebastien Knecht, Mattias Duytschaever, Rene Tavernier, Jean-Benoit Le Polain De Waroux

First in human pulsed field ablation to treat scar-related ventricular tachycardia in ischemic heart disease: a case report

• Case Reports

Alexandre Ouss, Loes van Stratum, Pepijn van der Voort, Lukas Dekker

Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation using claims data – bigger is not always better

• Commentary

Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mohammed Ruzieh, Kevin J. Mills

Ethanol infusion in the vein of Marshall is feasible in experienced centers — but is it ready for every Tom, Dick, and Harry?

• Commentary

Sven Knecht, Christian Sticherling

Outflow tract PVC mapping: understand the “uni”…believe the “bi”

• Commentary

Naga Venkata K. Pothineni

Should voltage mapping be an integral part of the cryoballoon ablation procedure?

• Commentary

Dana C. Johnson, Erik Wissner

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

• EDITORIAL

Henry D. Huang

A new method for roof line block validation: usefulness of esophageal probe

Maxime de Guillebon, Romain Tixier, Stéphane Debeugny, Hugues Bader, Nicolas Delarche

The impact of an electronic medical alert system for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices and bacteremia

Luis H. Paz Rios, Iva Minga, Safwan Gaznabi, John Erwin, Alfonso Tafur, Mark D. Metzl

A novel and practical technique to facilitate lead insertion at the His bundle region

• Atrioventricular Block

Helbert Acosta, Nathan Acosta, Gerardo Viafara, Alejandra de las Salas, Siri R. Pothula, Noah M. Acosta, Courtney Peckosh, Muddasir Ashraf, Jennifer Moore, Alimou Bah, Sergio Alzate, Michael W. LeMaster, Toni Martin, Luis Moron Mercado, Gustavo Lopera

Is the pacing site closer to the left ventricular septal endocardium in left bundle branch pacing or in left ventricular septal pacing?

• Echocardiography

Xin-Yi Peng, Yan-Jiang Wang, Lan-Lan Sun, Liang Shi, Chao-Di Cheng, Li-Hong Huang, Ying Tian, Xing-Peng Liu

Initial experience of temperature-controlled irrigated radiofrequency ablation for ischaemic cardiomyopathy ventricular tachycardia ablation

• Open Access
• Cardiomyopathy

Jaffar Al-Sheikhli, Ian Patchett, Ven Gee Lim, Leeann Marshall, Will Foster, Michael Kuehl, Shamil Yusuf, Sandeep Panikker, Kiran Patel, Faizel Osman, Prithwish Banerjee, Nicolas Lellouche, Tarvinder Dhanjal

Conduction system pacing in prosthetic heart valves

Kuldeep Shah, Brian D. Williamson, Ilana Kutinsky, Rahul Bhardwaj, Tahmeed Contractor, Mohit K. Turagam, Ravi Mandapati, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Jalaj Garg

Pulsed field ablation for pulmonary vein isolation: real-world experience and characterization of the antral lesion size compared with cryoballoon ablation

Christian Blockhaus, Jan-Erik Guelker, Ludger Feyen, Alexander Bufe, Melchior Seyfarth, Dong-In Shin

Electrical cardioversion for early recurrences post pulmonary vein isolation

• Open Access

Gesa von Olshausen, Astrid Paul-Nordin, Jari Tapanainen, Mats Jensen-Urstad, Hamid Bastani, Ott Saluveer, Tara Bourke, Nikola Drca, Göran Kennebäck, Serkan Saygi, Yusuf Turkmen, Per Insulander, Frieder Braunschweig

Comparison of cryoballoon and radiofrequency ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jitae A. Kim, Mihail G. Chelu

Effects and pharmacological mechanism of Zhigancao Decoction on electrical and structural remodeling of the atrium of rabbits induced by rapid atrial pacing

Sheng Guo, Yao-jun Xue, Xue Zhu, Bo Yang, Cheng-zhi Zhou

High-density electroanatomic mapping with grid catheter in pediatrics and congenital heart disease

Johannes C. von Alvensleben, Amneet Sandhu, Shu Chang, D. Martin Runciman, Melissa Wehrmann, D. Wendy Tzou, Michal Schäfer, Kathryn K. Collins

Intracardiac electrogram characteristics of intramural outflow tract ventricular arrhythmias

Kivanc Yalin, Tolga Aksu, Baris Ikitimur, Sukriye Ebru Onder, Ali Ugur Soysal, Sila Ozturk, Kardelen Nafia Inan Ohtaroglu Tokdil, Hakan Yalman, Deniz Mutlu, Adem Atici, Metin Okşul, Erkan Baysal, Ahmet Kaya Bilge

Association between concurrent use of diltiazem and DOACs and risk of bleeding in atrial fibrillation patients

Mohammed Shurrab, Cynthia A. Jackevicius, Peter C. Austin, Karen Tu, Feng Qiu, Joseph Caswell, Faith Michael, Jason G. Andrade, Dennis T. Ko

Variability of the VA interval at tachycardia induction: a simple method to differentiate orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia from atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

Claudio Hadid, Leonardo Celano, Darío Di Toro, Edgar Antezana-Chavez, Sebastián Gallino, Gustavo Iralde, David Calvo, Pablo Ávila, Leonardo Atea, Sergio Gonzalez, Sebastián Maldonado, Carlos Labadet

Automated conduction velocity estimation based on isochronal activation of heart chambers

• Open Access

Michela Santurri, Jennifer Bonga, Maurizio Schmid, Filippo Maria Cauti, Francesco Solimene, Marco Polselli, Mauro Bura, Francesco Piccolo, Maurizio Malacrida, Gemma Pelargonio, Francesco Raffaele Spera, Stefano Bianchi, Pietro Rossi

The Maine vein of Marshall ethanol experience: learning curve and safety

Jordan S. Leyton-Mange, Kunal Tandon, Edward Y. Sze, Charles M. Carpenter, Henry W. Sesselberg

The ridge line of left pulmonary vein isolation from left atrial appendage can subsequently increase the completion rate of the mitral isthmus block line

Hitomi Hori, Shinji Kaneko, Masaya Fujita, Shin Nagai, Ryota Ito, Yoshinori Shirai, Kentaro Adachi, Noriyuki Suzuki, Junya Suzuki, Kiyota Kondo, Ryota Yamauchi, Tomoaki Haga, Yosuke Tatami, Taiki Ohashi, Ryuji Kubota, Masanori Shinoda, Akihito Tanaka, Yasuya Inden, Toyoaki Murohara

Inefficient diastolic filling in dual-chamber pacemaker recipients: impact of atrio-ventricular interval shortening (AVI-SHORT study)

Damia Pereferrer, Axel Sarrias, Raquel Adeliño, Felipe Bisbal, Júlia Aranyó, Nuria Vallejo, Roger Villuendas, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Victor Bazan

Incidence of vascular complications for electrophysiology procedures in the ultrasound era: a single-centre experience over 10,000 procedures in the long term

Wern Yew Ding, Dibbendhu Khanra, Nikola Kozhuharov, Matthew Shaw, Vishal Luther, Reza Ashrafi, Zoltan Borbas, Saagar Mahida, Simon Modi, Mark Hall, Richard Snowdon, Johan Waktare, Derick Todd, Dhiraj Gupta

Is creation of a fully circumferential lesion set necessary for laser balloon ablation-based pulmonary vein isolation?

Hirotsugu Sato, Shiro Nakahara, Reiko Fukuda, Yuichi Hori, Hideyuki Aoki, Yuki Kondo, Masatoshi Shimura, Yuri Koshikawa, Yukiko Mizutani, Itaru Hisauchi, Yuji Itabashi, Sayuki Kobayashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Isao Taguchi

Impact of first-line cryoablation for atrial fibrillation on healthcare utilization, arrhythmia disease burden and efficacy outcomes: real-world evidence from the Cryo Global Registry

Giulio Zucchelli, K. R. Julian Chun, Surinder Kaur Khelae, Csaba Földesi, Fred J. Kueffer, Kelly A. van Bragt, Fernando Scazzuso, Young-Keun On, Fawzia Al-Kandari, Ken Okumura

Pulsed field ablation as first-line “efficient” rhythm control for atrial fibrillation complicated with heart failure: proof-of-concept

Shaojie Chen, Boris Schmidt, Stefano Bordignon, Shota Tohoku, Lukas Urbanek, David Schaack, Julian K. R. Chun

Catheter ablation of frequent monomorphic ventricular arrhythmias in Andersen-Tawil syndrome: case report and focused literature review

• Reviews

Roberto Keegan, Leonardo Onetto, Franco Gregorietti, Ricardo Urruti, Luigi Di Biase

Innovations in atrial fibrillation ablation

• Reviews

Jitae A. Kim, Khurrum Khan, Riyad Kherallah, Shamis Khan, Ishan Kamat, Owais Ulhaq, Qussay Marashly, Mihail G. Chelu

Comparing the efficacy of catheter ablation strategies for persistent atrial fibrillation: a Bayesian analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Reviews

Sijia Wu, Hongkai Li, Shaolei Yi, Jianming Yao, Xueming Chen

Oral anticoagulant underutilization among elderly patients with atrial fibrillation: insights from the United States Medicare database

• Open Access
• Review

Muhammad Bilal Munir, Patrick Hlavacek, Allison Keshishian, Jennifer D. Guo, Rajesh Mallampati, Mauricio Ferri, Cristina Russ, Birol Emir, Matthew Cato, Huseyin Yuce, Jonathan C. Hsu

Three-dimensional mapping in cardiac implantable electronic device — a feasible and effective alternative to fluoroscopy

• Reviews

Xiaozhen Ge, Mengna Chen, Zhongxin Sha, Junmeng Zhang

Contemporary approach to catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic cardiomyopathy

• Review

Sharma Kattel, Alan D. Enriquez