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Differential Diagnosis of Wide QRS Tachycardias
Author(s): Demosthenes G Katritsis , Josep Brugada Added: 3 years ago
The term narrow QRS tachycardia indicates individuals with a QRS duration ≤120 ms, while wide QRS tachycardia refers to tachycardia with a QRS duration >120 ms.1 Narrow QRS complexes are due to rapid activation of the ventricles via the His–Purkinje system, suggesting that the origin of the arrhythmia is above or within the His bundle. However, early activation of the His bundle can also occur… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Atrial Tachycardias After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: How to Manage?
Author(s): Yuan Hung , Shih-Lin Chang , Wei-Shiang Lin , et al Added: 3 years ago
AF is the most common clinical arrhythmia that causes severe adverse cardiovascular events, such as ischaemic stroke and acute heart failure.1 Triggers from the pulmonary vein (PV) have been identified as crucial ectopic sources that initiate AF and pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the cornerstone for catheter ablation of AF.2,3 Per the European and US AF guidelines, catheter ablation of AF is… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Steven M Markowitz , George Thomas , Christopher F Liu , et al Added: 3 years ago
Pioneering electrophysiology studies in the 1990s defined the anatomical boundaries of typical atrial flutter, identified regions for effective catheter ablation of this arrhythmia and described procedural endpoints to minimise recurrences after ablation. Activation and entrainment mapping demonstrated that typical flutter arises from reentry around the tricuspid annulus.1 Criteria to confirm… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Charlotte Brouwer , Mark G Hazekamp , Katja Zeppenfeld Added: 3 years ago
The reported incidence of congenital heart disease (CHD) depends on the number of trivial lesions included, such as atrial and ventricular septal defects (ASDs and VSDs). Moderate-to-severe CHD numbers remain stable with 6 per 1,000 live births.1 Survival into adulthood has improved dramatically over the last 25 years and has been driven mainly by a decreased mortality in moderate and severe… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Heterogeneous Populations
Author(s): Demosthenes G Katritsis , Giuseppe Boriani , Francisco G Cosio , et al Added: 3 years ago
Endorsed by Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estimulación Cardiaca y Electrofisiologia (SOLAECE) This is an executive summary of the full consensus document on the management of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) patients published in Europace. The consensus document was prepared by a Task Force from the European Heart Rhythm… View more

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Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Paolo Della Bella
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Dr Paolo Della Bella graduated from the University of Milan, where he studied Medicine and Surgery specialising in Cardiology. He is currently the head of the Cardiac Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology unit of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. He has performed over 50000 electrophysiological procedures as first surgeon. His main study focus is related to ventricular tachycardias and… View more
Author(s): Nikolaos Fragakis Added: 3 years ago
Dear Sir, I read with great interest the review article ‘Mahaim Accessory Pathways’ by D. Katritsis, et al.,1 in a past issue of Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review (AER 6(1):29-32). In this concise paper a systematic approach to electrophysiological diagnosis and differential diagnosis of these rare, but characteristic, pathways is presented. As the authors point out, pathways with Mahaim… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Supraventricular Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Author(s): Carina Blomström-Lundqvist , Tatjana S Potpara , Helena Malmborg Added: 3 years ago
With the advent of successful surgical repairs and modern diagnostic techniques, an increasing number of patients with congenital heart disease survive to adulthood. Despite these improvements, the surgical corrective atrial incisions performed during childhood lead to subsequent myocardial scarring that have the inherent risk of harbouring substrates for macro-reentrant atrial tachycardias … View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Heterogeneous Populations
Mapping and Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia
Author(s): Richard Schilling , Afzal Sohaib Start date: Mar 07, 2019

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Ablation of Arrhythmias in Patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Author(s): Rodrigo Gallardo Lobo , Michael Griffith , Joseph De Bono Added: 3 years ago
Around 0.8% of live births are affected by some type of congenital heart disease; 30–50% of whom will need one or more surgical interventions, generally during early childhood, involving in some cases complex corrections with patches, baffles or extracardiac circuits.1,2 As a result of advances in surgical interventions, the life expectancy of patients with congenital heart disease has… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Heterogeneous Populations