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Author(s):
Angela Hall
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Andrew RJ Mitchell
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3 years ago
AF is the most common clinical arrhythmia, affecting at least 1–2% of the population.1,2 Its prevalence increases with age, with 5% of people aged over 65 years developing AF, climbing to 8% in those aged over 75 years.3 AF is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and has significant public health implications.4 Patients presenting with new onset AF to emergency departments can be…
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Author(s):
Jean-Baptiste Gourraud
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Jason G Andrade
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Laurent Macle
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et al
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3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia observed in clinical practice, occurring in approximately 2 % of the general population.1–3 A progressive increase in both the prevalence and incidence of AF has been demonstrated in recent years, defining AF as a major economic and public health issue.1
The identification of sites of AF initiation and/or maintenance within…
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Author(s):
Demosthenes G Katritsis
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Giuseppe Boriani
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Francisco G Cosio
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et al
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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…
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Author(s):
Francisco G Cosio
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3 years ago
The term ‘flutter’ was coined to designate the visual and tactile rapid, regular atrial contraction induced by faradic stimulation in animal hearts, in contrast with irregular, vermiform contraction in atrial fibrillation (AF).1,2 On the ECG, flutter was a regular continuous undulation between QRS complexes at a cycle length (CL) of ≤250 ms (≥240 bpm). Slower tachycardias displaying discrete P…
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Author(s):
Ameeta Yaksh
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Lisette JME van der Does
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Eva AH Lanters
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et al
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3 years ago
Cardiac arrhythmias during pregnancy pose a serious threat to the health of both mother and foetus. Women with established tachyarrhythmias, congenital heart defects or channelopathies have the highest risk for development of arrhythmias.1,2 They also develop de novo or occur in women without apparent heart diseases. Tachyarrhythmias, including both supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias,…
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Author(s):
Boris Rudic
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Rainer Schimpf
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Martin Borggrefe
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3 years ago
Short QT syndrome (SQTS) is a rare, inheritable channelopathy of the heart characterised by abnormally short QT intervals on the electrocardiogram (ECG) and an increased propensity to develop atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias in the absence of structural heart disease.1,2 SQTS was first described as a new clinical entity by Gussak et al. in 2000.1 Until then shortening of the QT interval…
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Author(s):
Carina Blomström-Lundqvist
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Tatjana S Potpara
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Helena Malmborg
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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 …
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