Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardioembolic stroke in cardiac amyloidosis is a formidable challenge

• COMMENTARY

De-Gang Mo

Response to “How to demonstrate the advantage of cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation over cavotricuspid isthmus ablation in patients with typical atrial flutter”

• COMMENTARY

Peter Calvert, Dhiraj Gupta

How to compare clinical benefit between catheter ablation versus anti-arrhythmic drug to treat sinus node dysfunction and atrial fibrillation

• COMMENTARY

Naoya Kataoka, Teruhiko Imamura

Very high-power short duration 90 W/4 s (vHPSD) vs. vHPSD-combined ablation index–guided 50W ablation (hybrid) approach for pulmonary vein isolation in treating atrial fibrillation: have we found the best radiofrequency recipe?

• Open Access
• COMMENTARY

Shaojie Chen

Pulmonary vein isolation for typical atrial flutter: are we missing the forest for the triggers?

• INVITED COMMENTARY

Balaram Krishna Hanumanthu, Timothy M. Markman

Unveiling duodromic atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: a unique circuit showing His bundle dissociation with two septal accessory pathways in close anatomical proximity

• IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Gustavo Alejandro Costa, Alberto Alfie, Ricardo Speranza, Camila Olivera

A rare presentation of Ebstein’s anomaly: left-sided accessory pathway and tricuspid stenosis

• IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Kathryn H. Schwartzman, Jack R. Stines, Hemal M. Nayak, Utkarsh Kohli

Right-sided implantation with left-sided connection of a left bundle branch area pacing lead

• IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Serkan Cay, Gorkem Kus, Ozcan Ozeke, Firat Ozcan, Meryem Kara, Hande Cetin, Ahmet Korkmaz, Serkan Topaloglu

Denki buro: a Japanese electric bath in public space causing inappropriate ICD shock

• Open Access
• IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Masaki Hashimoto, Kenichiro Yamagata, Jun Yokota, Izumi Tanikawa, Katsuhito Fujiu

Challenges and pitfalls during CRT implantation in patients with persistent left superior vena cava

• Open Access

Deniz Akdis, Julia Vogler, Malte-Maria Sieren, Nadine Molitor, Tom Sasse, Huong-Lan Phan, Lorenzo Bartoli, Niels Grosse, Ardan M. Saguner, Urs Eriksson, Firat Duru, Daniel Hofer, Alexander Breitenstein, Roland Richard Tilz, Stephan Winnik

Impact of infective versus sterile transvenous lead removal on 30-day outcomes in cardiac implantable electronic devices

Fahimeh Talaei, Qi-Xuan Ang, Min-Choon Tan, Mustafa Hassan, Luis Scott, Yong-Mei Cha, Justin Z. Lee, Kamala Tamirisa

Cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation as first-line treatment of typical atrial flutter: long-term outcomes of the CRAFT trial

• Open Access

Peter Calvert, Wern Yew Ding, Moloy Das, Lilith Tovmassian, Muzahir H. Tayebjee, Guy Haywood, Claire A. Martin, Kim Rajappan, Matthew G. D. Bates, Ian Peter Temple, Tobias Reichlin, Zhong Chen, Richard N. Balasubramaniam, Christian Sticherling, Christina Ronayne, Nichola Clarkson, Maureen Morgan, Janet Barton, Ian Kemp, Saagar Mahida, Dhiraj Gupta

Early real-world implant experience with a helix-fixation ventricular leadless pacemaker

Devi G. Nair, Derek V. Exner, Vivek Y. Reddy, Nima Badie, David Ligon, Marc A. Miller, Bridget Lee, Brandon Doty, Athanasios Thomaides, Zayd Eldadah, Malick Islam, Cyrus Hadadi

Ablation-induced left atrial mechanical dysfunction recovers in weeks after ablation

• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Jiawei Dong, Eugene Kwan, Jake A. Bergquist, Benjamin A. Steinberg, Derek J. Dosdall, Edward V. R. DiBella, Rob S. MacLeod, T. Jared Bunch, Ravi Ranjan

Strategy to achieve mitral isthmus flutter ablation by radiofrequency: the SHERIFF plan

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Alexis Mechulan, Pierre Dieuzaide, Angélique Peret, Thibaud Vaugrenard, Sophiane Houamria, Frederic Pons, Lyassine Nait-Saidi, Ichem Miliani, Thomas Lemann, Ahmed Bouharaoua, Sébastien Prévot

Pressure waveform analysis for occlusion assessment significantly reduces contrast medium use in cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Vanessa Sciacca, Thomas Fink, Stephan Winnik, Mustapha El Hamriti, Denise Guckel, Maxim Didenko, Maximilian Mörsdorf, Martin Braun, Moneeb Khalaph, Guram Imnadze, Philipp Sommer, Christian Sohns

Effect of adaptive cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure patients with pacemaker dependency

Toshihiro Nakamura, Kohei Ishibashi, Nobuhiko Ueda, Satoshi Oka, Yuichiro Miyazaki, Akinori Wakamiya, Kenzaburo Nakajima, Tsukasa Kamakura, Mitsuru Wada, Yuko Inoue, Koji Miyamoto, Satoshi Nagase, Takeshi Aiba, Kengo Kusano

Comparative utility of omnipolar and bipolar electroanatomic mapping methods to detect and localize dual nodal substrate in patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

• Original Research

Edward T. O’Leary, Davis Sneider, Robert Przybylski, Audrey Dionne, Mark E. Alexander, Douglas Y. Mah, John K. Triedman, Elizabeth S. DeWitt

Three-year incidence of pacemaker implantation in patients with atrial fibrillation and sinus node dysfunction receiving ablation versus antiarrhythmic drugs

• Open Access

Nazli Kubra Okumus, Emily P. Zeitler, Abdelmoniem Moustafa, Maximiliano Iglesias, Rahul Khanna, Yiran Rong, Saima Karim

Therapeutic potential of conduction system pacing as a method for improving cardiac output during ventricular tachycardia

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Daniel Keene, Alejandra A. Miyazawa, Ahran D. Arnold, Akriti Naraen, Nandita Kaza, Jagdeep S. Mohal, David C. Lefroy, Phang Boon Lim, Fu Siong Ng, Michael Koa-Wing, Norman A. Qureshi, Nick W. F. Linton, Ian Wright, Nicholas S. Peters, Prapa Kanagaratnam, Matthew J. Shun-Shin, Darrel P. Francis, Zachary I. Whinnett

Impact of residual induction number of non-pulmonary vein foci on the 2-year outcomes in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Yasuyuki Egami, Masaru Abe, Mizuki Osuga, Hiroaki Nohara, Shodai Kawanami, Kohei Ukita, Akito Kawamura, Koji Yasumoto, Masaki Tsuda, Naotaka Okamoto, Yasuharu Matsunaga-Lee, Masamichi Yano, Masami Nishino

Validation of a prediction model for early reconnection after cryoballoon ablation

• Open Access
• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Kevin van Waaij, Fehmi Keçe, Marta de Riva, Reza Alizadeh Dehnavi, Adrianus P. Wijnmaalen, Sebastiaan R. D. Piers, Bart J. Mertens, Katja Zeppenfeld, Serge A. Trines

Comparing cryoballoon and contact-force guided radiofrequency ablation in pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Original Research

Takahiko Kinjo, Masaomi Kimura, Daisuke Horiuchi, Taihei Itoh, Yuji Ishida, Kimitaka Nishizaki, Yuichi Toyama, Shogo Hamaura, Shingo Sasaki, Hirofumi Tomita

Safety and feasibility of intravenous sotalol loading for the prevention of ventricular arrhythmias

• Original Research

Abhinav Sehgal, Arati Gangadharan, Herman A. Carneiro, Graham Peigh, Jessica Charron, Graham Lohrmann, Mahmoud Elsayed, Jayson Baman, Anna Pfenniger, Kaustubha Patil, Alexandru Chicos, Rishi Arora, Susan S. Kim, Albert Lin, Rod Passman, Bradley P. Knight, Nishant Verma

Outcomes of patients with cardiac amyloidosis undergoing percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion

• ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Siddharth Agarwal, Sukriti Banthiya, Agam Bansal, Muhammad Bilal Munir, Christopher V. DeSimone, Abhishek Deshmukh, Zain Ul Abideen Asad

Usefulness of intracardiac echocardiography-guided mapping of the tricuspid annulus in ablating the right free wall accessory pathway

• RESEARCH LETTER

Kodai Negishi, Ken Okumura, Fumitaka Onishi, Akino Yoshimura, Hideharu Okamatsu, Takuo Tsurugi, Yasuaki Tanaka, Yoshiro Sakai, Koichi Nakao, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Junjiro Koyama, Hirofumi Tomita

Single plane multipolar catheter for accurate activation mapping of papillary muscle ectopy

• Research Letter

Parth Makker, Kristie M. Coleman, Dimitrios Varrias, James Gabriels, Gregory Cunn, Moussa Saleh, Haisam Ismail, Stuart Beldner, Stavros E. Mountantonakis

Comparison of very-high power short duration radiofrequency ablation strategies for pulmonary vein isolation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

• RESEARCH LETTER

Ourania Kariki, Panagiotis Mililis, Athanasios Saplaouras, Theodoros Efremidis, Eleftheria-Garyfallia Tsetika, Antonios Martinos, Evangelia Girginoudi, Stylianos Dragasis, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Michael Efremidis

Catheter ablation using pulmonary vein isolation with versus without left atrial posterior wall isolation for persistent atrial fibrillation: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

• REVIEWS

Dhan Bahadur Shrestha, Bishnu Deep Pathak, Niranjan Thapa, Oshan Shrestha, Sagun Karki, Jurgen Shtembari, Nimesh K. Patel, Kunal Kapoor, Gautham Kalahasty, George Bodziock, Patrick Whalen, Naga Venkata K. Pothineni, Bharat Narasimhan, Jayanthi Koneru, Ghanshyam Shantha

Efficacy and safety of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in elderly patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• REVIEWS

Marcos Roberto Queiroz França, Carlos Arturo Morillo, André Assis Lopes Carmo, Marina Mayrink, Reynaldo Castro Miranda, André Dias Nassar Naback, Immaculate Nevis, Gustavo Araújo Silva, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Bruno Ramos Nascimento

New-generation electronic appliances and cardiac implantable electronic devices: a systematic literature review of mechanisms and in vivo studies

• REVIEWS

Jakrin Kewcharoen, Kuldeep Shah, Rahul Bhardwaj, Tahmeed Contractor, Mohit K. Turagam, Ravi Mandapati, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Jalaj Garg

Pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation when in proximity to LAA AtriClip: the LAA-Clip does not inhibit the pulse

• TECHNICAL REPORT

Ramin Ebrahimi, Julian K. R. Chun, Boris Schmidt, Shaojie Chen