Europace

EDITORIALS

Mathias Meine, Tim Smith, and Richard N.W. Hauer

The economical challenge in the treatment of chronic heart failure: is primary prophylactic ICD therapy cost-effective in Europe?
Europace 2009 11: 689-691; doi:10.1093/europace/eup140 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Koen Nieman and Pim J. de Feyter

Fluoroscopic three-dimensional left atrial image integration during ablation for cardiac ablation procedures
Europace 2009 11: 692-693; doi:10.1093/europace/eup141 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Köbe and Lars Eckardt

Early mortality in implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients: from randomized controlled trials to real life
Europace 2009 11: 694-696; doi:10.1093/europace/eup139 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elijah R. Behr and Saagar Mahida

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and the long-QT syndrome: an insult to repolarization reserve
Europace Advance Access published on April 6, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 697-700; doi:10.1093/europace/eup081 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract Cihan Cevik, Alejandro Perez-Verdia, and Kenneth Nugent

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and their role in heart failure progression
Europace Advance Access published on April 8, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 710-715; doi:10.1093/europace/eup091 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

ICD

Get checked abstract Martin R. Cowie, Deborah Marshall, Michael Drummond, Nicole Ferko, Michael Maschio, Matthias Ekman, Luc de Roy, Hein Heidbuchel, Yves Verboven, Frieder Braunschweig, Cecilia Linde, and Giuseppe Boriani

Lifetime cost-effectiveness of prophylactic implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator in patients with reduced left ventricular systolic function: results of Markov modelling in a European population
Europace Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 716-726; doi:10.1093/europace/eup068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jorge Toquero, Javier Alzueta, Lluis Mont, Ignacio F. Lozano, Alberto Barrera, Antonio Berruezo, Victor Castro, José Luis Peña, Maria Luisa Fidalgo, and Josep Brugada

Morphology discrimination criterion wavelet improves rhythm discrimination in single-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Spanish Register of morphology discrimination criterion wavelet (REMEDIO)
Europace Advance Access published on May 2, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 727-733; doi:10.1093/europace/eup099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pacing and CRT

Get checked abstract Polychronis Dilaveris, Georgios Giannopoulos, Andreas Synetos, Constadina Aggeli, Leonidas Raftopoulos, Petros Arsenos, Konstantinos Gatzoulis, and Christodoulos Stefanadis

Effect of biventricular pacing on ventricular repolarization and functional indices in patients with heart failure: lack of association with arrhythmic events
Europace Advance Access published on April 17, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 741-750; doi:10.1093/europace/eup094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Imaging for Catheter Ablations

Get checked abstract Joris Ector, Stijn De Buck, Dieter Nuyens, Tom Rossenbacker, Wim Huybrechts, Razeen Gopal, Frederik Maes, and Hein Heidbüchel

Adenosine-induced ventricular asystole or rapid ventricular pacing to enhance three-dimensional rotational imaging during cardiac ablation procedures
Europace 2009 11: 751-762; doi:10.1093/europace/eup109 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Non-invasive Electrophysiology

Get checked abstract Carlos A. Faria, Ruy S. Moraes, Dário C. Sobral-Filho, Antônio G. Rego, Maria F.P. Baracho, Eryvaldo S.T. Egito, and José Brandão-Neto

Autonomic modulation in patients with congenital generalized lipodystrophy (Berardinelli-Seip syndrome)
Europace Advance Access published on April 17, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 763-769; doi:10.1093/europace/eup095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CONSENSUS DOCUMENT

Etienne M. Aliot, William G. Stevenson, Jesus Ma Almendral-Garrote, Frank Bogun, C. Hugh Calkins, Etienne Delacretaz, Paolo Della Bella, Gerhard Hindricks, Pierre Jaïs, Mark E. Josephson, Josef Kautzner, G. Neal Kay, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Bruce B. Lerman, Francis Marchlinski, Vivek Reddy, Martin-Jan Schalij, Richard Schilling, Kyoko Soejima, and David Wilber

EHRA/HRS Expert Consensus on Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: Developed in a partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a Registered Branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS); in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA)
Europace Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 771-817; doi:10.1093/europace/eup098 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EHRA EDUCATION COMMITTEE: EDUCATION IN EP

Alexander H. Maass and Isabelle C. Van Gelder

Hazards of antitachycardia pacing to treat ventricular tachycardias with implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Europace Advance Access published on April 8, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 819; doi:10.1093/europace/eup080 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Get checked abstract Horst Wedekind, Joachim G. Müller, Michael Ribbing, Paul Skurzewski, Christoph Bozzetti, Hans-Joachim Meyer-Krahmer, and Dirk Böcker

A fatal combination in an old lady: Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, and cardiac hypertrophy
Europace Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 820-822; doi:10.1093/europace/eup011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Reinhold Weber, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Thomas Arentz, and Dietrich Kalusche

Adenosine sensitive focal atrial tachycardia originating from the non-coronary aortic cusp
Europace Advance Access published on April 21, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 823-826; doi:10.1093/europace/eup086 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Taka-aki Matsuyama, Takashi Kurita, Kazuhiro Suyama, Hideo Okamura, Takashi Noda, Kazuhiro Satomi, Wataru Shimizu, Naohiko Aihara, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Shin Inoue, Shiro Kamakura, and Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda

Mitral isthmus pathology of re-entrant ventricular tachycardia in a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Europace Advance Access published on April 7, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 827-830; doi:10.1093/europace/eup067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Eloi Marijon, Jean Paul Albenque, Nicolas Combes, and Serge Boveda

Use of the left coronary sinus of Valsalva for left anterior accessory pathway catheter ablation
Europace Advance Access published on April 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 831-833; doi:10.1093/europace/eup096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shoaib Hamid, Aruna Arujuna, and Christopher A. Rinaldi

A shocking lead in the coronary sinus
Europace Advance Access published on April 10, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 833-834; doi:10.1093/europace/eup088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sonoko Ashino, Ichiro Watanabe, Yasuo Okumura, Masayoshi Kofune, Kimie Ohkubo, Toshiko Nakai, and Atsushi Hirayama

Implantation of a pacemaker in a patient with severe Parkinson's disease and a pre-existing bilateral deep brain stimulator
Europace Advance Access published on May 15, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 834-835; doi:10.1093/europace/eup117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDUM

Task Force members, Michele Brignole, Panos Vardas, Ellen Hoffman, Heikki Huikuri, Angel Moya, Renato Ricci, Neil Sulke, Wouter Wieling, EHRA Scientific Documents Committee, Angelo Auricchio, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Jesus Almendral, Paulus Kirchhof, Etienne Aliot, Maurizio Gasparini, Frieder Braunschweig, Document Reviewers, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Jesus Almendral, Paulus Kirchhof, and Gian Luca Botto

Indications for the use of diagnostic implantable and external ECG loop recorders
Europace 2009 11: 836; doi:10.1093/europace/eup142 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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