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EDITORIALS

Dennis W. den Uijl and Jeroen J. Bax

Left atrial size as a predictor of successful radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Europace 2009 11: 1255-1256; doi:10.1093/europace/eup285 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ron Pisters, Cees B. de Vos, Robert Dennert, and Harry J. Crijns

Undetected paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in chronic heart failure patients: is it clinically relevant to catch the atrial phantom?
Europace 2009 11: 1257-1259; doi:10.1093/europace/eup268 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vincent Probst and Herve Le Marec

Brugada syndrome: where are you?
Europace 2009 11: 1260-1261; doi:10.1093/europace/eup267 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angelo Bartoletti

Implantable loop recorders for assessment of syncope: is ‘Saint Thomas approach’ still the best diagnostic strategy?
Europace 2009 11: 1262-1264; doi:10.1093/europace/eup266 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael D. Gammage

Impact of syncope on quality of life: do we need another tool?
Europace 2009 11: 1265-1266; doi:10.1093/europace/eup147 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract Oscar Campuzano and Ramon Brugada

Genetics of familial atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1267-1271; doi:10.1093/europace/eup199 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Emmanuel N. Simantirakis, Eva G. Arkolaki, and Panos E. Vardas

Novel pacing algorithms: do they represent a beneficial proposition for patients, physicians, and the health care system?
Europace Advance Access published on August 1, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1272-1280; doi:10.1093/europace/eup204 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Get checked abstract Boris Schmidt, Kyoung Ryul Julian Chun, Andreas Metzner, Alexander Fuernkranz, Feifan Ouyang, and Karl-Heinz Kuck

Pulmonary vein isolation with high-intensity focused ultrasound: results from the HIFU 12F study
Europace Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1281-1288; doi:10.1093/europace/eup208 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract João Abecasis, Raquel Dourado, António Ferreira, Carla Saraiva, Diogo Cavaco, Katya Reis Santos, Francisco Belo Morgado, Pedro Adragão, and Aniceto Silva

Left atrial volume calculated by multi-detector computed tomography may predict successful pulmonary vein isolation in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1289-1294; doi:10.1093/europace/eup198 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atrial Fibrillation - clinical issues

Get checked abstract Jane C. Caldwell, Hussain Contractor, Sanjiv Petkar, Razwan Ali, Bernard Clarke, Clifford J. Garratt, Ludwig Neyses, and Mamas A. Mamas

Atrial fibrillation is under-recognized in chronic heart failure: insights from a heart failure cohort treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy
Europace Advance Access published on August 1, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1295-1300; doi:10.1093/europace/eup201 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Finn Hegbom, Arnljot Tveit, Irene Grundvold, Harald Arnesen, and Pal Smith

Effects of angiotensin receptor blockade on serial P-wave signal-averaged electrocardiograms after electrical cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1301-1307; doi:10.1093/europace/eup220 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ICD

Get checked abstract Janet M. McComb, Christopher J. Plummer, Morag W. Cunningham, and David Cunningham

Inequity of access to implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in England: possible causes of geographical variation in implantation rates
Europace 2009 11: 1308-1312; doi:10.1093/europace/eup264 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ben McHale, Scott A. Harding, Nigel A. Lever, and Peter D. Larsen

A national survey of clinician's knowledge of and attitudes towards implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Europace Advance Access published on September 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1313-1316; doi:10.1093/europace/eup236 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Get checked abstract Ashish Patwala, Paul Woods, Richard Clements, Khaled Albouaini, Archana Rao, David Goldspink, Lip-Bun Tan, Aung Oo, and David Wright

A prospective longitudinal evaluation of the benefits of epicardial lead placement for cardiac resynchronization therapy
Europace 2009 11: 1323-1329; doi:10.1093/europace/eup251 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hamid Reza Bonakdar, Mohammad Vahid Jorat, Amir Farjam Fazelifar, Abolfath Alizadeh, Nozar Givtaj, Niloofar Sameie, Anita Sadeghpour, and Majid Haghjoo

Prediction of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy using simple electrocardiographic and echocardiographic tools
Europace 2009 11: 1330-1337; doi:10.1093/europace/eup258 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome

Get checked abstract Moritz F. Sinner, Arne Pfeufer, Siegfried Perz, Eric Schulze-Bahr, Gerold Mönnig, Lars Eckardt, Britt-Maria Beckmann, H.-Erich Wichmann, Günter Breithardt, Gerhard Steinbeck, Larissa Fabritz, Stefan Kääb, and Paulus Kirchhof

Spontaneous Brugada electrocardiogram patterns are rare in the German general population: results from the KORA study
Europace Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1338-1344; doi:10.1093/europace/eup205 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christian Veltmann, Christian Wolpert, Frederic Sacher, Philippe Mabo, Rainer Schimpf, Florian Streitner, Joachim Brade, Florence Kyndt, Juergen Kuschyk, Herve Le Marec, Martin Borggrefe, and Vincent Probst

Response to intravenous ajmaline: a retrospective analysis of 677 ajmaline challenges
Europace Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1345-1352; doi:10.1093/europace/eup189 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Papadakis, Sanjay Sharma, Steve Cox, Mary N. Sheppard, Vasileios F. Panoulas, and Elijah R. Behr

The magnitude of sudden cardiac death in the young: a death certificate-based review in England and Wales
Europace Advance Access published on August 21, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1353-1358; doi:10.1093/europace/eup229 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Syncope and Implantable Loop Recorders

Get checked abstract Andrew John Turley, Margaret Mary Tynan, and Christopher John Plummer

Time to manual activation of implantable loop recorders—implications for programming recording period: a 10-year single-centre experience
Europace Advance Access published on July 31, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1359-1361; doi:10.1093/europace/eup193 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gerrit Kaleschke, Boris Hoffmann, Imke Drewitz, Gerhard Steinbeck, Michael Naebauer, Andreas Goette, Günter Breithardt, and Paulus Kirchhof

Prospective, multicentre validation of a simple, patient-operated electrocardiographic system for the detection of arrhythmias and electrocardiographic changes
Europace 2009 11: 1362-1368; doi:10.1093/europace/eup262 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marianne Sarah Rose, Mary-Lou Koshman, Debbie Ritchie, and Robert Sheldon

The development and preliminary validation of a scale measuring the impact of syncope on quality of life
Europace 2009 11: 1369-1374; doi:10.1093/europace/eup106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T Wave Alternans

Get checked abstract Karin Kraaier, Patrick M.J. Verhorst, Job van der Palen, Pascal F.H.M. van Dessel, Arthur A.M. Wilde, and Marcoen F. Scholten

Microvolt T-wave alternans during exercise and pacing are not comparable
Europace Advance Access published on September 15, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1375-1380; doi:10.1093/europace/eup253 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORE CURRICULUM

Get checked abstract Jose L. Merino, Fernando Arribas, Giovanni Luca Botto, Heikki Huikuri, Lars I. Kraemer, Cecilia Linde, John M. Morgan, Martin Schalij, Emmanuel Simantirakis, Christian Wolpert, Marie-Christine Villard, Julie Poirey, Svya Karaim-Fanchon, and Keren Deront on behalf of the 2005–2007 Accreditation Committee, European Heart Rhythm Association, European Society of Cardiology

Core curriculum for the heart rhythm specialist: executive summary
Europace Advance Access published on August 26, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1381-1386; doi:10.1093/europace/eup214 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Get checked abstract Michael A.E. Schneider, A. Schade, Marcus L. Koller, and Burghard Schumacher

Cryoballoon ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation within the dilated coronary sinus in a case of persistent left superior vena cava
Europace Advance Access published on August 1, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1387-1389; doi:10.1093/europace/eup203 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lieve Van Casteren, Wim Huybrechts, and Rik Willems

Undersensing of ventricular fibrillation due to interference between a pacemaker and defibrillator in the same patient
Europace Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1390-1391; doi:10.1093/europace/eup196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ross J. Hunter, Malcolm Finlay, Richard J. Schilling, and Simon Sporton

A broad complex tachycardia with conflicting information from pacing manoeuvres
Europace Advance Access published on July 10, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1392-1395; doi:10.1093/europace/eup190 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ryan G. Aleong, Sheldon M. Singh, John R. Levinson, and David J. Milan

Catecholamine challenge unmasking high-risk features in the Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
Europace Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1396-1398; doi:10.1093/europace/eup211 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Maurizio Del Greco, Massimiliano Marini, Maurizio Centonze, and Marcello Disertori

Atrial fibrillation ablation procedure using electroanatomic reconstruction of the right and left atrium in a patient affected by dextrocardia
Europace Advance Access published on August 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1399-1400; doi:10.1093/europace/eup209 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anton Verrijcken, Wim Huybrechts, and Rik Willems

Pacemaker-mediated tachycardia with varying cycle length: what is the mechanism?
Europace Advance Access published on July 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1400-1402; doi:10.1093/europace/eup172 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Takumi Yamada, H. Thomas McElderry, Harish Doppalapudi, and G. Neal Kay

Ventricular far-field activity may provide a diagnostic challenge in identifying an origin of ventricular tachycardia arising from the left ventricular papillary muscle
Europace 2009 11: 1403-1405; doi:10.1093/europace/eup284 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Bortolo Martini

The ajmaline challenge and a strange ECG
Europace 2009 11: 1406; doi:10.1093/europace/eup224 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian Veltmann, Christian Wolpert, Rainer Schimpf, Philippe Mabo, Herve LeMarec, Martin Borggrefe, and Vincent Probst

The ajmaline challenge and a strange ECG: reply
Europace 2009 11: 1406-1407; doi:10.1093/europace/eup254 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin R. Cowie on behalf of the co-authors

Editorial: The economical challenge in the treatment of chronic heart failure: is primary prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy cost-effective in Europe?
Europace Advance Access published on August 14, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1407-1408; doi:10.1093/europace/eup225 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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? Reply
Europace Advance Access published on September 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1408-1410; doi:10.1093/europace/eup247 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Diego Chemello, Anandaraja Subramanian, and Douglas Cameron

Twiddler syndrome with 180° rotation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator generator resulting in malfunction of one of the shocking coils
Europace 2009 11: 1259; doi:10.1093/europace/eup259 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sony Jacob and Tamam Mohamad

Pacemaker lead malfunction following superior vena cava stenting
Europace Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1266; doi:10.1093/europace/eup200 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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