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Author(s): David Filgueiras-Rama , Jose L Merino Added: 3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in the clinical practice.1 The prevalence of the arrhythmia is progressively increasing in developed countries and moreover, it is expected to affect up to 12 million people only in the US by 2050.2 Antiarrhythmic drugs continue to represent the first-line of treatment in AF patients, either to restore sinus rhythm or to prevent… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Andreas Metzner , Erik Wissner , Tina Lin , et al Added: 3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia affecting 1.5–2 % of the general population.1 In the current clinical guidelines, catheter ablation is recommended in addition to drug-based antiarrhythmic therapy for patients suffering from symptomatic, drugrefractory AF. However, catheter ablation, if performed at an experienced centre, may also serve as first-line therapy in… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Konstantinos C Siontis , Hakan Oral Added: 3 years ago
Advanced catheter-based technologies employed for the ablation of symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) have revolutionised the management of this common sustained arrhythmia. In the late 1990s, premature depolarisations originating from the myocardial sleeves within the pulmonary veins were recognised to initiate AF. This landmark discovery rendered pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) as the… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): George D Katritsis , Hugh Calkins Added: 3 years ago
Over the past decades catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has evolved from being a largely experimental procedure to a well-established therapeutic option for certain patients with AF.1–4 Currently the backbone of most catheter ablation techniques is to target the pulmonary veins (PVs) in order to achieve their electrical isolation and maintain sinus rhythm (SR).1 Additional techniques… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Fehmi Keçe , Katja Zeppenfeld , Serge A Trines Added: 3 years ago
Catheter ablation is an effective strategy to maintain sinus rhythm in patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF), which has evolved from a highly specialised technique to a first-line therapy.1–3 The cornerstone of ablation is pulmonary vein isolation (PVI).4 Over the last decade, ablation devices have undergone technical improvements, aiming for better lesion durability and ablation… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Tina Lin , Feifan Ouyang , Karl-Heinz Kuck , et al Added: 3 years ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Intervention
Author(s): Tom JR De Potter , Gazmend Bardhaj , Aniello Viggiano , et al Added: 3 years ago
Percutaneous catheter treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) has seen an exponential uptake since the first cases were published exactly two decades ago.1 Evolving over different approaches and treatment strategies, current standard of care consists of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) through radiofrequency (RF) or other energy sources. While this treatment has been shown to be superior to… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Preventing Collateral Injury in AF Ablation
Author(s): Lisa WM Leung , Zaki Akhtar , Jamal Hayat , et al Added: 1 year ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Jorge E Romero , Ricardo Avendano , Michael Grushko , et al Added: 3 years ago
Oesophageal injury prevention has become a major concern in the field of electrophysiology since the first case of atrio–oesophageal fistula was reported as a complication of endocardial surgical radiofrequency ablation (RFA),1 with Scanavacca et al. and Pappone et al. subsequently reporting this complication in patients who underwent percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for AF.2,3 It is… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Author(s): David Schaack , Boris Schmidt , Shota Tohoku , et al Added: 1 year ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia