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EDITORIALS

Giuseppe Boriani, Mauro Biffi, Alessandro Marziali, Igor Diemberger, and Cristian Martignani

A changing scenario in the clinical use of implantable defibrillators: the need for long-term data on lead performance
Europace 2009 11: 1-3; doi:10.1093/europace/eun339 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José-Angel Cabrera, Siew Yen Ho, and Damián Sánchez-Quintana

How anatomy can guide ablation in isthmic atrial flutter
Europace 2009 11: 4-6; doi:10.1093/europace/eun340 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten W. Israel

Optimizing the treatment of atrial fibrillation: contributions by remote monitoring
Europace 2009 11: 7-8; doi:10.1093/europace/eun355 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rakesh Gopinathannair and Brian Olshansky

Ibutilide revisited: stronger and safer than ever
Europace 2009 11: 9-10; doi:10.1093/europace/eun337 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW

Get checked abstract Sheila Carew, Margaret O. Connor, John Cooke, Richard Conway, Christine Sheehy, Aine Costelloe, and Declan Lyons

A review of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Europace 2009 11: 18-25; doi:10.1093/europace/eun324 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Get checked abstract David H. Birnie, Samuel F. Sears, Martin S. Green, Robert Lemery, Michael H. Gollob, and Barbara Amyotte

No long-term psychological morbidity living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator under advisory: the Medtronic Marquis experience
Europace Advance Access published on November 13, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 26-30; doi:10.1093/europace/eun317 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andreas Goette, Francesco Cantu, Lieselot van Erven, Peter Geelen, Franck Halimi, Jose L. Merino, and John M. Morgan on behalf of the Scientific Initiative Committee of the European Heart Rhythm Association

Performance and survival of transvenous defibrillation leads: need for a European data registry
Europace Advance Access published on November 11, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 31-34; doi:10.1093/europace/eun301 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ablation: Imaging

Get checked abstract Charalampos Kriatselis, Min Tang, Mattias Roser, Eckart Fleck, and Hong Gerds-Li

A new approach for contrast-enhanced X-ray imaging of the left atrium and pulmonary veins for atrial fibrillation ablation: rotational angiography during adenosine-induced asystole
Europace Advance Access published on December 3, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 35-41; doi:10.1093/europace/eun311 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Paulus Kirchhof, Murat Özgün, Stephan Zellerhoff, Gerold Mönnig, Lars Eckardt, Kristina Wasmer, Walter Heindel, Günter Breithardt, and David Maintz

Diastolic isthmus length and ‘vertical’ isthmus angulation identify patients with difficult catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter: a pre-procedural MRI study
Europace Advance Access published on November 24, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 42-47; doi:10.1093/europace/eun308 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Petr Peichl, Josef Kautzner, and Roman Gebauer

Ablation of atrial tachycardias after correction of complex congenital heart diseases: utility of intracardiac echocardiography
Europace Advance Access published on November 23, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 48-53; doi:10.1093/europace/eun316 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atrial Fibrillation

Get checked abstract Renato Pietro Ricci, Loredana Morichelli, and Massimo Santini

Remote control of implanted devices through Home Monitoring^TM technology improves detection and clinical management of atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on November 16, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 54-61; doi:10.1093/europace/eun303 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Helmut Pürerfellner, Lubos Urban, Gerjan de Weerd, Jaap Ruiter, Johan Brandt, Ales Havlicek, Burkhard Hügl, Jos Widdershoven, Lilian Kornet, and Roger Kessels

Reduction of atrial fibrillation burden by atrial overdrive pacing: experience with an improved algorithm to reduce early recurrences of atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 62-69; doi:10.1093/europace/eun294 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nikolaos Fragakis, Athanasios Bikias, Ioannis Delithanasis, Melania Konstantinidou, Nikolaos Liakopoulos, Miltiadis Kozirakis, and George Katsaris

Acute beta-adrenoceptor blockade improves efficacy of ibutilide in conversion of atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular rate
Europace Advance Access published on November 5, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 70-74; doi:10.1093/europace/eun302 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Get checked abstract Bernd Nowak, and Björn Misselwitz on behalf of the Expert Committee ‘Pacemaker’, Institute of Quality Assurance Hessen

Effects of increasing age onto procedural parameters in pacemaker implantation: results of an obligatory external quality control program
Europace Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 75-79; doi:10.1093/europace/eun293 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antoine Lepillier, Olivier Piot, Bart Gerritse, Xavier Copie, Thomas Lavergne, Olivier Paziaud, Gilles Lascault, Xavier Waintraub, Akli Otmani, and Jean-Yves Le Heuzey

Relationship between New York Heart Association class change and ventricular tachyarrhythmia occurrence in patients treated with cardiac resynchronization plus defibrillator
Europace Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 80-85; doi:10.1093/europace/eun288 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alireza Nazeri, Ali Massumi, Abdi Rasekh, Mohammad Saeed, Christopher Frank, J. Michael Wilson, J. Alberto Lopez, and Mehdi Razavi

Cardiac resynchronization therapy may improve symptoms of congestive heart failure in patients without electrical or mechanical dyssynchrony
Europace Advance Access published on December 4, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 86-88; doi:10.1093/europace/eun326 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Syncope

Get checked abstract Malgorzata Lelonek, Tadeusz Pietrucha, Monika Matyjaszczyk, and Jan Henryk Goch

A novel approach to syncopal patients: association analysis of polymorphisms in G-protein genes and tilt outcome
Europace 2009 11: 89-93; doi:10.1093/europace/eun277 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sleep Apnoea and Arrhythmias

Get checked abstract Ariel Szyszko, Carlos Franceschini, and Jorge Gonzalez-Zuelgaray

Reliability of a Holter-based methodology for evaluation of sleep apnoea syndrome
Europace Advance Access published on October 29, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 94-99; doi:10.1093/europace/eun285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ri-Bo Tang, Jian-Zeng Dong, Xing-Peng Liu, Jun-Ping Kang, Shao-Fang Ding, Li Wang, De-Yong Long, Rong-Hui Yu, Xiao-Hui Liu, Shuang Liu, and Chang-Sheng Ma

Obstructive sleep apnoea risk profile and the risk of recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation
Europace Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 100-105; doi:10.1093/europace/eun315 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Beata Sredniawa, Radoslaw Lenarczyk, Oskar Kowalski, Patrycja Pruszkowska-Skrzep, Jacek Kowalczyk, Agata Musialik-Lydka, Sylwia Cebula, and Zbigniew Kalarus

Sleep apnoea as a predictor of mid- and long-term outcome in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy
Europace Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 106-114; doi:10.1093/europace/eun310 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EHRA EDUCATION COMMITTEE: EDUCATION IN EP

Laurent Roten and Hildegard Tanner

Irregular tachycardia: what is the mechanism? Part I
Europace Advance Access published on November 27, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 115-116; doi:10.1093/europace/eun320 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Get checked abstract Christian Sticherling, Otmar Pfister, and Stefan Osswald

Thrombo-embolic occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery complicating left atrial radiofrequency ablation
Europace Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 117-118; doi:10.1093/europace/eun300 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yuval Konstantino, Jairo Kusniec, Ronit Shohat-Zabarski, Alexander Battler, and Boris Strasberg

Cardiac defibrillator implantation via persistent left superior vena cava facilitated by a coronary sinus delivery system
Europace Advance Access published on November 6, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 119-120; doi:10.1093/europace/eun304 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Toshihiro Iwasaku, Keiji Hirooka, Tatsunori Taniguchi, Go Hamano, Yukari Utsunomiya, Akito Nakagawa, Masao Koide, Takamaru Ishizu, Masaki Yamato, Noriko Sasaki, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Hiroya Mizuno, Yukihiro Koretsune, Hideo Kusuoka, and Yoshio Yasumura

Successful catheter ablation to accessory atrioventricular pathway as cardiac resynchronization therapy in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy
Europace Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 121-123; doi:10.1093/europace/eun318 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Fakhar Z. Khan, David Paul Dutka, and Simon Patrick Fynn

Recorded spontaneous sudden cardiac arrest in a patient with pre-excited atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on October 9, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 124; doi:10.1093/europace/eun274 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Siegmund Keuleers, Bert Ferdinande, Wim Huybrechts, and Rik Willems

Wide complex tachycardia in a patient with a dual chamber pacemaker
Europace Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 125-128; doi:10.1093/europace/eun312 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EHRA EDUCATION COMMITTEE: EDUCATION IN EP

Laurent Roten and Hildegard Tanner

Irregular tachycardia: what is the mechanism? Part II
Europace Advance Access published on November 27, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 129; doi:10.1093/europace/eun321 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Yoshiaki Inoue, Osamu Igawa, and Kazuhiko Iitsuka

Aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract after surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot: three-dimensional computed tomography findings
Europace Advance Access published on October 1, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 130; doi:10.1093/europace/eun260 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spyridon Koulouris, Socratis Pastromas, and Antonis S. Manolis

Removal of a temporary pacemaker lead fragment with the use of biopsy forceps
Europace Advance Access published on November 20, 2008
Europace 2009 11: 131; doi:10.1093/europace/eun314 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDUM

Hugh Calkins, Josep Brugada, Douglas L. Packer, Riccardo Cappato, Shih-Ann Chen, Harry J.G. Crijns, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr, D. Wyn Davies, David E. Haines, Michel Haissaguerre, Yoshito Iesaka, Warren Jackman, Pierre Jais, Hans Kottkamp, Karl Heinz Kuck, Bruce D. Lindsay, Francis E. Marchlinski, Patrick M. McCarthy, J. Lluis Mont, Fred Morady, Koonlawee Nademanee, Andrea Natale, Carlo Pappone, Eric Prystowsky, Antonio Raviele, Jeremy N. Ruskin, and Richard J. Shemin

HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations for Personnel, Policy, Procedures and Follow-Up: A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Europace 2009 11: 132; doi:10.1093/europace/eun341 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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