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Author(s): Katrina Mountfort , Reinoud Knops , Johannes Sperzel , et al Added: 3 years ago
Based on Presentations at Nanostim Sponsored Symposium Held at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 September 2013 In 1958, the world’s first patient was implanted with a pacemaker. It brought numerous benefits, the most important of which was increased survival. Since then, pacemaker technology has evolved with the development of improved device… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Nishant Verma , Bradley P Knight Added: 3 years ago
A Brief History of Cardiac Pacing Electrical stimulation of the heart was used sporadically throughout the 19th century, generating a set of case reports, largely related to attempts to resuscitate people.1 The contemporary field of cardiac pacing emerged in the 20th century (Figure 1). The first use of pacemakers in a modern sense was in the late 1920s when Australian anaesthetist Mark Lidwell… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Job title: Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
Dr Lee Kaplan is Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute, founding director of the Weight Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr Kaplan's clinical expertise is in the areas of obesity medicine, gastroenterology and liver disease. The author of more than 150 medical and scientific papers, he has a special… View more
EHRA 24: The Style-AF Study
Author(s): Roland R Tilz Added: 3 days ago
EHRA 24 - We are joined onsite by Dr Roland Tilz (University Heart Center, DE) to discuss the findings of the Style-AF study (NCT05563142).This prospective, randomized, controlled study aims to compare the safety and efficacy of the Perclose ProStyle suture-medicated closure device to manual compression for the treatment of hemostasis after single-shot-device pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). 125… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
VHPSD versus Conventional Catheter Ablation in AF
Author(s): Raymond Pranata , Giky Karwiky , Mohammad Iqbal Added: 4 months ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
The Subcutaneous ICD: A Review of the UNTOUCHED and PRAETORIAN Trials
Author(s): Ahmadreza Karimianpour , Leah John , Michael R Gold Added: 2 years ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Adryan A Perez , Frank W Woo , Darren C Tsang , et al Added: 3 years ago
The use of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) has increased dramatically, with approximately 1.2–­1.4 million CIEDs implanted annually worldwide.1 In the US alone, there are more patients with CIEDs than registered nurses.2,3 CIEDs use leads that connect a generator to cardiac tissue to treat patients with many conditions including symptomatic bradycardia, morbid tachycardia… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
EHRA 22: Real-world Data on S-ICD in Heart Failure Patients
Author(s): Marco Schiavone Added: 2 years ago
In this short interview recorded at EHRA 2022, Dr Marco Schiavone (Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, IT) outlines the findings of a real-world meta-analysis designed to assess the clinical outcomes of S-ICD in HF patients from the largest European Registry. Results suggest that over 2 years, there were no significant differences in appropriate and inappropriate shocks between patients with… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Cryoballoon Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Octogenarians
Author(s): Tauseef Akhtar , Ronald Berger , Joseph E Marine , et al Added: 3 years ago
AF is a common and clinically impactful arrhythmia. Given both the association of AF with aging and the increasing number of elderly people in the general population, it follows that many AF patients are of advanced age. The management of AF in the geriatric population is associated with several challenges, including multiple comorbidities, increased toxicity of antiarrhythmic drugs (AAD), an… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Charles M Pearman , Shi S Poon , Laura J Bonnett , et al Added: 3 years ago
The goal of arrhythmia eradication in AF continues to be elusive for cardiac electrophysiologists. Although endocardial radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation is more effective than pharmacological management at maintaining sinus rhythm,1 it is far from perfect, especially in patients with non-paroxysmal AF.2 In an attempt to address this, attention has turned back to the surgical ablation that… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia