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    Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology: Volume 31, Issue 10

    2553-2796
    October 2020
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  • Pages: 2553-2558
  • First Published: 05 October 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing second-generation cryoballoon and contact force radiofrequency ablation for initial ablation of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation

Venkatesh Ravi MD,  Abhushan Poudyal MD,  Priyanjali Pulipati MBBS,  Timothy Larsen DO,  Kousik Krishnan MD,  Richard G. Trohman MD,  Parikshit S. Sharma MD, MPH,  Henry D. Huang MD, 
  • Pages: 2559-2571
  • First Published: 16 July 2020

Lesion characteristics between cryoballoon ablation and radiofrequency ablation with a contact force-sensing catheter: Late-gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging assessment

Jun Kurose MD,  Kunihiko Kiuchi MD, FHRS,  Koji Fukuzawa MD,  Mitsuru Takami MD,  Shumpei Mori MD,  Hideya Suehiro MD,  Yu-ichi Nagamatsu MD,  Tomomi Akita MD,  Makoto Takemoto MD,  Atsusuke Yatomi MD,  Toshihiro Nakamura MD,  Jun Sakai MD,  Yoshiaki Watanabe MD,  Shinsuke Shimoyama MD,  Noriyuki Negi RT,  Katsusuke Kyotani RT,  Ken-ichi Hirata MD, 
  • Pages: 2572-2581
  • First Published: 09 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Noninvasive assessment of durability of ablation lesions with magnetic resonance imaging: Are we there yet?

Dhiraj Gupta MD, 
  • Pages: 2582-2583
  • First Published: 09 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clinical utility of local impedance monitoring during pulmonary vein isolation

Masaharu Masuda MD, PhD,  Takashi Kanda MD,  Naoya Kurata,  Mitsutoshi Asai MD, PhD,  Osamu Iida MD,  Shin Okamoto MD,  Takayuki Ishihara MD,  Kiyonori Nanto MD,  Takuya Tsujimura MD,  Yasuhiro Matsuda MD,  Yosuke Hata MD,  Hiroyuki Uematsu MD,  Toshiaki Mano MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2584-2591
  • First Published: 16 July 2020

Clinical outcome of pulmonary vein isolation alone ablation strategy using VISITAG SURPOINT in nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation

Junji Yamaguchi MD,  Yoshihide Takahashi MD,  Tasuku Yamamoto MD,  Miki Amemiya MD,  Masahiro Sekigawa MD,  Yasuhiro Shirai MD,  Susumu Tao MD,  Tatsuya Hayashi MD,  Atsuhiko Yagishita MD,  Masateru Takigawa MD,  Masahiko Goya MD,  Tetsuo Sasano MD, 
  • Pages: 2592-2599
  • First Published: 15 July 2020

REVIEW

Esophago-pericardial fistula after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: A review

Eduardo Back Sternick MD, PhD,  Frederico Soares Correa MD,  Leonardo Ferber Drumond MD,  Rodrigo Albuquerque Carreiro MD,  Manuela Alves Rabelo MD,  Paulo de Tarso Vaz de Oliveira MD, 
  • Pages: 2600-2606
  • First Published: 23 August 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Electroanatomic guidance versus conventional fluoroscopy during transseptal puncture for atrial fibrillation ablation

Federica Troisi MD, PhD,  Federico Quadrini MD,  Antonio Di Monaco MD,  Nicola Vitulano MD,  Rosa Caruso DNP,  Pietro Guida PhD,  Tommaso Langialonga MD,  Massimo Grimaldi MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2607-2613
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Transseptal puncture for atrial fibrillation ablation under electroanatomic guidance: Is it feasible?

Mohamad Khaled Sabeh MD,  Marwan M. Refaat MD, 
  • Pages: 2614-2615
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clinical

Temporal trends of catheter ablation for patients with atrial fibrillation: A Korean nationwide population-based study

Euijae Lee MD,  So-Ryoung Lee MD,  Eue-Keun Choi MD, PhD,  Kyung-Do Han PhD,  Myung-Jin Cha MD,  Gregory Y.H. Lip MD,  Seil Oh MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2616-2625
  • First Published: 08 September 2020

Non–vitamin K oral anticoagulants in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients undergoing catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Antonio Creta MBBS,  Ross J. Hunter PhD,  Mark J. Earley MD,  Malcolm Finlay PhD,  Mehul Dhinoja MBBS,  Simon Sporton MD,  Anthony Chow MD,  Saidi A. Mohiddin MD,  Serge Boveda PhD,  Pedro Adragao PhD,  Zeynab Jebberi MBBS,  Daniel Matos MBBS,  Richard J. Schilling MD,  Pier D. Lambiase PhD,  Rui Providência PhD, 
  • Pages: 2626-2631
  • First Published: 08 July 2020

ORIGINAL - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Catheter ablation of atrial tachycardias after mitral valve surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Jacopo Marazzato MD,  Giangiuseppe Cappabianca MD,  Fabio Angeli MD,  Matteo Crippa MD,  Michele Golino MD,  Sandro Ferrarese MD,  Cesare Beghi MD,  Roberto De Ponti MD, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2632-2641
  • First Published: 11 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Catheter ablation of atrial tachycardias after mitral valve surgery

Youssef Jalloul MD,  Marwan M. Refaat MD, 
  • Pages: 2642-2644
  • First Published: 11 July 2020

ORIGINAL - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Open Access

Outcome after tailored catheter ablation of atrial tachycardia using ultra-high-density mapping

Christiane Jungen MD,  Ruken Akbulak MD,  Ann-Kathrin Kahle,  Christian Eickholt MD,  Benjamin Schaeffer MD,  Katharina Scherschel PhD,  Leon Dinshaw MD,  Paula Muenkler MD,  Ruben Schleberger MD,  Moritz Nies MD,  Melanie A. Gunawardene MD,  Niklas Klatt MD,  Jens Hartmann MD,  Lydia Merbold,  Mario Jularic MD,  Stephan Willems MD,  Christian Meyer MD, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2645-2652
  • First Published: 04 August 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Idiopathic right ventricular arrhythmias requiring additional ablation from the left-sided outflow tract: ECG characteristics and efficacy of an anatomical approach

Kaori Hisazaki MD, PhD,  Kanae Hasegawa MD, PhD,  Kenichi Kaseno MD, PhD,  Shinsuke Miyazaki MD, PhD, FHRS,  Daisetsu Aoyama MD,  Moe Mukai MD,  Minoru Nodera MD, PhD,  Yuichiro Shiomi MD,  Naoto Tama MD,  Hiroyuki Ikeda MD, PhD,  Kentaro Ishida MD, PhD,  Hiroyasu Uzui MD, PhD,  Hiroshi Tada MD, PhD, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2653-2664
  • First Published: 08 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Idiopathic right ventricular arrhythmias with changes in the QRS morphology after ablation

Mohamad N. El Moheb MD,  Marwan M. Refaat MD, 
  • Pages: 2665-2667
  • First Published: 08 July 2020

ORIGINAL - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Electrocardiographic localization of ventricular arrhythmias successfully ablated from the distal great cardiac vein

David Chang MD,  James Gabriels MD,  Aditi Vaishnav MBBS,  Beom S. Kim MD,  Kristie Coleman BA,  Mohammad Khan BS,  Kyle Maisel BS,  Haisam Ismail MD,  Bruce Goldner MD,  Jonathan Willner MD,  Raman Mitra MD, PhD,  Roy M. John MBBS, PhD,  Apoor Patel MD,  Laurence M. Epstein MD,  Stavros Mountantonakis MD,  Stuart Beldner MD, 
  • Pages: 2668-2676
  • First Published: 03 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clinical characteristics and risk factors of arrhythmia during follow-up of patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation

Niels K. Stampe MD,  Camilla B. Jespersen MD,  Charlotte Glinge MD, PhD,  Henning Bundgaard MD, DMSc,  Jacob Tfelt-Hansen MD, DMSc,  Bo G. Winkel MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2677-2686
  • First Published: 28 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Risk factors for recurrent ventricular arrhythmias in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation

Rand Ibrahim BS,  Marwan M. Refaat MD, 
  • Pages: 2687-2688
  • First Published: 28 July 2020

ORIGINAL - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Open Access

A novel open-source software-based high-precision workflow for target definition in cardiac radioablation

Stephan Hohmann MD,  Christoph Henkenberens MD,  Christos Zormpas MD,  Hans Christiansen MD,  Johann Bauersachs MD,  David Duncker MD,  Christian Veltmann MD, 
  • Pages: 2689-2695
  • First Published: 10 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Evaluation of the QT interval in patients with drug-induced QT prolongation and torsades de pointes

Philipp Krisai MD,  Konstantinos Vlachos MD,  F. Daniel Ramirez MD, MSc,  Yosuke Nakatani MD,  Takashi Nakashima MD,  Takamitsu Takagi MD,  Tsukasa Kamakura MD,  Elodie Surget MD,  Clémentine André MD,  Ghassen Cheniti MD,  Nicolas Welte MD,  Rémi Chauvel MD,  Romain Tixier MD, MSc,  Josselin Duchateau MD, PhD,  Thomas Pambrun MD,  Nicolas Derval MD,  Mélèze Hocini MD,  Pierre Jaïs MD,  Michel Haïssaguerre MD,  Frédéric Sacher MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2696-2701
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Optimal location of the QT interval evaluation in patients with drug-induced QT prolongation and torsades de pointes: Limb leads, chest leads, or both?

Bachir Lakkis MD,  Marwan M. Refaat MD, 
  • Pages: 2702-2703
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clinical implications of elective replacement indicator setting changes in patients with dual-chamber pacemaker devices

Kari A. Phillips MD,  Shiva Ponamgi MD,  Benjamin Mundell MD, PhD,  Mykhaylo Krushelnytskyy MD,  Zhuo Li MS,  Robert Rea MD,  Abhishek Deshmukh MBBS,  Christopher McLeod MB, ChB, PhD,  Raul E. Espinosa MD,  Michael Osborn MD,  Paul A. Friedman MD,  Siva K. Mulpuru MD,  Yong-Mei Cha MD,  Lori B. Neutzling RN,  Thomas Munger MD,  Krishna Kancharla MBBS,  Samuel J. Asirvatham MD, 
  • Pages: 2704-2710
  • First Published: 16 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

I've got a feeling: The impact of ERI on patients and healthcare

Carola Gianni MD,  Amin Al-Ahmad MD, 
  • Page: 2711
  • First Published: 16 July 2020

ORIGINAL - DEVICES

Cardiac implantable electronic device placement following alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the United States

Matthew C. Lam MD,  Srihari S. Naidu MD,  Dhaval Kolte MD, PHD,  Kevin Kennedy MS,  Dmitriy N. Feldman MD,  Antony F. Chu MD,  J. Dawn Abbott MD,  Paul Gordon MD,  Herbert D. Aronow MD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 2712-2719
  • First Published: 16 July 2020

Characteristics of ventricular tachyarrhythmias and their susceptibility to antitachycardia pacing termination in patients with ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy: A patient-level meta-analysis of three large clinical trials

Alan Cheng MD,  Boyoung Joung MD,  Mark L. Brown PhD,  Jodi Koehler MS,  Daniel R. Lexcen PhD,  Prashanthan Sanders MBBS, PhD,  Kenneth A. Ellenbogen MD, 
  • Pages: 2720-2726
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

EDITORIAL-INVITED

Antitachycardia pacing: A worthy cause?

Gordon Ho MD,  Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green MD, 
  • Pages: 2727-2729
  • First Published: 23 July 2020

ORIGINAL - DEVICES

His-bundle pacing: A novel treatment for left bundle branch block-mediated cardiomyopathy

Rajeev Singh MD, MBA,  Subodh Devabhaktuni MD, FACC, FHRS,  Fatima Ezzeddine MD,  Joel Simon MD,  Kavita Khaira MD,  Gopi Dandamudi MD, MBA, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2730-2736
  • First Published: 26 July 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

His bundle pacing insights from electroanatomical mapping: Topography and pacing targets

Michael V. Orlov MD, PhD,  Ahad Jahangir MS,  Daniel McKelvey MS,  James Armstrong PA,  Mikhail Maslov MD, PhD,  AJ. Monin BS,  Ioannis Koulouridis MD, MS,  David Casavant MS,  John V. Wylie MD, 
  • Pages: 2737-2743
  • First Published: 15 July 2020

ORIGINAL - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Extract-stent-replace for treatment of upper baffle stenosis with pacing leads after atrial switch procedures for transposition of the great arteries: An approach to avoid “jailing” the lead

Miranda Merrill MD,  Angela Krebsbach PA-C,  Ryle Przybylowicz MD,  Craig S. Broberg MD,  Grant Burch MD,  Charles A. Henrikson MD, 
  • Pages: 2744-2750
  • First Published: 09 August 2020

Treatment with corticosteroids is associated with an increase in ventricular arrhythmia burden in patients with clinically manifest cardiac sarcoidosis: Insights from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator diagnostics

Maria C. Medor HBHSc,  Stewart Spence MD,  Pablo B. Nery MD,  Rob Beanlands MD,  Steven Promislow MD,  Daniel Juneau MD,  Rob de Kemp PhD,  Andrew C. Ha MD,  Lena Rivard MD,  Lorne Gula MD,  David H. Birnie MD, 
  • Pages: 2751-2758
  • First Published: 26 July 2020

BRIEF COMMUNICATION

First clinical use of real-time remote programming in cardiac implantable electronic devices

Toshimasa Okabe MD,  Muhammad R. Afzal MD,  John D. Hummel MD,  Emile G. Daoud MD,  Mahmoud Houmsse MD,  Steven J. Kalbfleisch MD,  Ralph S. Augostini MD, 
  • Pages: 2759-2761
  • First Published: 30 July 2020

CASE REPORTS

Unintended ICD discharge in a patient undergoing bladder tumor resection utilizing monopolar cautery and full-body return electrode

Ryan J. Lefevre MD,  George H. Crossley MD,  Laura L. Sorabella MD,  Kara K. Siegrist MD,  Susan S. Eagle MD, 
  • Pages: 2762-2764
  • First Published: 30 July 2020

Rate-dependent pacing failure after pacemaker implantation: Novel insights into the mechanism of using adenosine

Hisaharu Ohe MD,  Yasushi Oginosawa MD, PhD,  Yasunobu Yamagishi MD,  Taro Miyamoto MD,  Keita Tsukahara MD,  Ritsuko Kohno MD, PhD,  Haruhiko Abe MD, PhD,  Yutaka Otsuji MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2765-2769
  • First Published: 05 August 2020

Successful integration of a three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography-derived model with an electroanatomic mapping system to guide catheter ablation of WPW

Christopher M. Janson MD,  Hannah H. Nam BA,  Christian Herz MS,  Andras Lasso PhD,  Alana Cianciulli BS,  Matthew A. Jolley MD, 
  • Pages: 2770-2773
  • First Published: 11 August 2020

DEVICE ROUNDS

Unexpected rapid pacing on electrocardiogram: Has the device malfunctioned?

Li Wei Tan MBBS, MRCP,  Kenny Tan MBBS, MRCP,  Pow-Li Chia MBBS, FRCP,  David Foo MBBS, FRCP, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2774-2777
  • First Published: 09 July 2020

Pseudo-loss of left ventricular capture due to interventricular crosstalk

Fani Zagkli MD,  Stefanos Despotopoulos MD,  John Chiladakis MD, 
  • Pages: 2778-2781
  • First Published: 30 July 2020

Tachycardia in a pacemaker dependent patient: What went wrong?

Leonell Freytes MD,  Francisco Perez MD, FACC, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2782-2784
  • First Published: 09 August 2020

EP ROUNDS

Wide QRS complex tachycardia and R–R variations

Iremar S. Macedo Neto MD,  Abelardo G. Escarião MD,  Afonso L. T. Albuquerque MD, PhD,  André G. S. Rezende MD, PhD,  Ezequiel C. Thé MD,  Anderson C. Armstrong MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2785-2787
  • First Published: 12 August 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Do not yet abandon cephalic vein access for multiple leads in ICD implantation

Alexander H. Maass MD, PhD,  Hessel F. Groenveld MD, PhD,  Michiel Rienstra MD, PhD, 
  • Page: 2788
  • First Published: 07 August 2020

RESPONSE TO LETTER TO EDITOR

Response to: Do not yet abandon cephalic vein access for multiple leads in ICD implantation

Chirag R. Barbhaiya MD,  Osama Niazi MD,  Lior Jankelson MD, PhD,  Scott Bernstein MD,  David Park MD, PhD,  Douglas Holmes MD,  Anthony Aizer MD, MSc, FHRS,  Larry A. Chinitz MD, FHRS, 
  • Pages: 2789-2790
  • First Published: 13 August 2020

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: Performance of electrophysiology procedures at an academic medical center amidst the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by Rubin et al.

Anna Ferraro MD,  Ruggero Maggio MD,  Maurizio Malacrida MS,  Ilaria Meynet MD,  Antonio Mazza MD,  Ferdinando Varbella MD, 
  • Pages: 2791-2792
  • First Published: 02 September 2020

QT prolongation with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19: The need for pharmacogenetic insights

Ana I. Lopez-Medina BS,  Alessandra M. Campos-Staffico PhD,  Jasmine A. Luzum PharmD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 2793-2794
  • First Published: 01 September 2020

RESPONSE TO LETTER TO EDITOR

Reply to: “QT prolongation with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19: The need for pharmacogenetic insights”

James P. Hummel MD,  Joseph G. Akar MD, PhD, 
  • Page: 2795
  • First Published: 31 August 2020

ERRATUM

Free Access

Erratum

  • Page: 2796
  • First Published: 07 September 2020