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Author(s): Tasneem Z Naqvi Added: 3 years ago
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the number one hospital discharge diagnosis for older adults and the leading cause of hospital readmissions, reflecting poor quality of life for patients and increased healthcare resource use, and is the cause of 300,000 deaths annually.1 Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has become a new effective treatment modality in those with drug-resistant advanced… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Melanie Maytin , Laurence M Epstein Added: 3 years ago
Early Techniques Lead extraction has undergone an explosive evolution since its inception as a rudimentary skill with limited technology and therapeutic options (see Figure 1). Early techniques involved simple manual traction, which frequently proved ineffective for chronically implanted leads and carried a high risk for myocardial avulsion, tamponade, and death.1–3 Bilgutay and colleagues… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Heterogeneous Populations
Author(s): Malcolm M Bersohn Added: 3 years ago
Permanent pacemakers have been used to treat patients with symptomatic bradycardia for 45 years. The earliest pacemakers paced only the ventricle and were used primarily for patients with complete heart block. The need for atrial pacing became apparent as pacing for sinus node dysfunction became more common. Initially, only single-chamber pacing was possible in the atrium, and this was a good… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
EuroPCR 2022: Optimize PRO Interim Analysis Finds New Technique is "Best-in-Class"
Author(s): Kendra J Grubb Added: 1 year ago
Dr Kendra Grubb (Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center, GA, US) outlines the interim analysis of the Optimize PRO Study (NCT04091048), originally presented at EuroPCR 2022. Optimize PRO aimed to evaluate valve performance and procedural outcomes of optimised TAVR care using Medtronic's Evolut™ PRO and Evolut™ PRO+ devices. Findings are promising and show that no patients experienced a… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Malcolm M Bersohn Added: 3 years ago
Permanent pacemakers have been used to treat patients with symptomatic bradycardia for 45 years. The earliest pacemakers paced only the ventricle and were used primarily for patients with complete heart block. The need for atrial pacing became apparent as pacing for sinus node dysfunction became more common. Initially, only single-chamber pacing was possible in the atrium, and this was a good… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Somsupha Kanjanauthai , Kabir Bhasin , Luigi Pirelli , et al Added: 3 years ago
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been established as a therapeutic option for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who are considered to be of intermediate, high or prohibitive surgical risk.1–5 As a result of favorable TAVR outcomes and substantial improvements in transcatheter heart valve (THV) technologies and implantation techniques, the feasibility of broadening… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Michael R Rosen Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis is as old as the Bible and ancient Chinese literature.1 Treatment has progressed from the natural products used by the ancients, to formalized attempts at pharmacological therapy over the last 300 years (with digitalis and cinchona bark being the lead compounds), to the modern use of devices and ablation. However, with the exception of electronic pacing for… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Job title: Director of Cardiology
Dr Jitendra Singh Makkar is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist (Director of Cardiology, ETERNAL HOSPITAL-Jaipur India) with special interest and expertise in the field of clinical electrophysiology, pacemaker & heart failure device management. He has two decades of experience in the field of Cardiology and has worked with leading Cardiac Institutes across country. He… View more
Harry G Mond
Job title: Associate Professor
DrMond is an Associate Professor at both Melbourne and Monash Universities in Victoria, Australia. He has been performing pacemaker implantation since 1970 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dr Mond was a foundation committee member of NASPeXAM (IBHRE). Dr Mond has retired from pacemaker implantation, but is still responsible for the pacemaker clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has authored… View more
Job title: Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services
Dr Vivek Y. Reddy is Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services for The Mount Sinai Hospital and Director of Electrophysiology for the Mount Sinai Health System, and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Professor of Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr Reddy is one of the US's premier cardiac electrophysiologists. He leads a team… View more