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Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director
Prof Haran Burri is a device specialist and electrophysiologist at the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland, where he is director of the device program. His research has focused on device therapy, with a current interest in conduction system pacing. He is active in the European Heart Rhythm Association, where he chaired the Education Committee and Scientific… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Section Head of Electrophysiology
Dr Luigi Di Biase is the Section Head of Electrophysiology at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, US. He graduated summa cum laude fromUniversity of Bari's cardiology residency in 2000, and completed a master's degree of electrophysiology and cardiac pacing at theUniversity of Insubria in Varese in 2006. Dr Di Biase’s research focuses on cardiology and electrophysiology with… View more
Author(s): Richard Sutton Added: 3 years ago
Syncope in a patient with a pacemaker commands urgent action to ascertain its cause and provide appropriate treatment. This is a well accepted statement but the field has evolved in recent years and, strangely, has received little attention. Many considerations bear on this issue. First, syncope in pacemaker patients is not common but may be more so than generally considered. The lack of… View more
Author(s): Cristian Podoleanu , Jean-Claude Deharo Added: 3 years ago
The increasing use of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) for management of cardiac conditions has over the last few years been associated with higher infection rates.1 Expanded CIED use alone cannot account for this rise,2–4 which involves both patient- and device-related factors. Indeed patients are tending to be older and presenting with co-morbidities, while devices are becoming… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Associate Professor
Personal History Dr. Gaurav A. Upadhyay is a cardiologist based in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with University of Chicago Medical Center. Academic History Dr. Upadhyay graduated from Harvard University in 2000 with a BA in Biology/Neurobiology. He went on to earn his MD from the University of Chicago in 2006 and then complete a residency in internal medicine and two… View more
Author(s): Michael R Gold Added: 2 years ago
In this video, Dr Michael R Gold (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, US) shares the primary results of the Smart-CRT Trial. The study investigated the efficacy of an atrioventricular optimization algorithm to improve reverse remodeling among patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in the presence of interventricular electrical delay. Discussion Points… View more