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EDITORIALS

Brian D. Powell and Douglas L. Packer

Does image integration improve atrial fibrillation ablation outcomes, or are other aspects of the ablation the key to success?
Europace 2009 11: 973-974; doi:10.1093/europace/eup192 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasja M.S. de Groot

Fractionated extracellular potentials: indicators of the arrhythmogenic substrate?
Europace Advance Access published on July 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 975-976; doi:10.1093/europace/eup183 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sabine Janko and Ellen Hoffmann

Atrial antitachycardia pacing: do we still need to talk about it?
Europace Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 977-979; doi:10.1093/europace/eup182 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yee Guan Yap

Inflammation and atrial fibrillation: cause or para-phenomenon?
Europace 2009 11: 980-981; doi:10.1093/europace/eup191 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten W. Israel

Do some implant too many defibrillators or others too few?
Europace 2009 11: 982-984; doi:10.1093/europace/eup207 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tamas Szili-Torok, Evgeny Mikhaylov, and Maarten Witsenburg

Transoesophageal electrophysiology study for children: can we swallow the limitations?
Europace Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 987-988; doi:10.1093/europace/eup184 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEWS

Get checked abstract Yee Guan Yap, Elijah R. Behr, and A. John Camm

Drug-induced Brugada syndrome
Europace Advance Access published on May 29, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 989-994; doi:10.1093/europace/eup114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John E. Madias

Mechanism of attenuation of the QRS voltage in heart failure: a hypothesis
Europace Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 995-1000; doi:10.1093/europace/eup127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EP WIRE

John Morgan

EHRA Scientific Initiatives Committee: initiative for surveys
Europace Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1001; doi:10.1093/europace/eup129 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Franck Halimi, and Lieselot Van Erven on behalf of the EHRA Scientific Initiatives Committee (SIC)

Validation of success following atrial fibrillation ablation: a European survey
Europace Advance Access published on June 3, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1002-1003; doi:10.1093/europace/eup128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Get checked abstract Emanuele Bertaglia, Paolo Della Bella, Claudio Tondo, Alessandro Proclemer, Nicola Bottoni, Roberto De Ponti, Maurizio Landolina, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Leonardo Corò, Giuseppe Stabile, Antonio Dello Russo, Roberto Verlato, Massimo Mantica, and Franco Zoppo

Image integration increases efficacy of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation catheter ablation: results from the CartoMerge^TM Italian Registry
Europace Advance Access published on June 18, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1004-1010; doi:10.1093/europace/eup152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gabor Bencsik, Martin Martinek, Said Hassanein, Josef Aichinger, Hans-Joachim Nesser, and Helmut Purerfellner

Acute effects of complex fractionated atrial electrogram ablation on dominant frequency and regulatory index for the fibrillatory process
Europace Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1011-1017; doi:10.1093/europace/eup113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Agustín Bortone, Serge Boveda, Jean-Luc Pasquié, Pénélope Pujadas-Berthault, Eloi Marijon, Anthony Appetiti, and Jean-Paul Albenque

Sinus rhythm restoration by catheter ablation in patients with long-lasting atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure: impact of the left ventricular ejection fraction improvement on the implantable cardioverter defibrillator insertion indication
Europace Advance Access published on June 25, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1018-1023; doi:10.1093/europace/eup167 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Biomarkers in Atrial Fibrillation

Get checked abstract Sook Kyoung Kim, Hui-Nam Pak, Jae Hyung Park, Jong Il Choi, Myung-Hyun Nam, Yunjung Jo, and Young-Hoon Kim

Non-ischaemic titrated cardiac injury caused by radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation mobilizes CD34-positive mononuclear cells by non-stromal cell-derived factor-1 mechanism
Europace Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1024-1031; doi:10.1093/europace/eup185 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kristoffer Mads Henningsen, Susette Krohn Therkelsen, Julia Sidenius Johansen, Helle Bruunsgaard, and Jesper Hastrup Svendsen

Plasma YKL-40, a new biomarker for atrial fibrillation?
Europace Advance Access published on May 2, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1032-1036; doi:10.1093/europace/eup103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pacing and CRT

Get checked abstract Adrian Baranchuk, Jeff S. Healey, Christopher S. Simpson, Damian P. Redfearn, Carlos A. Morillo, Stuart J. Connolly, and Michael Fitzpatrick

Atrial overdrive pacing in sleep apnoea: a meta-analysis
Europace Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1037-1040; doi:10.1093/europace/eup165 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne M. Gillis, Margaret Morck, Derek V. Exner, Robert S. Sheldon, Henry J. Duff, Brent L. Mitchell, and George D. Wyse

Impact of atrial antitachycardia pacing and atrial pace prevention therapies on atrial fibrillation burden over long-term follow-up
Europace Advance Access published on May 21, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1041-1047; doi:10.1093/europace/eup115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ICD

Get checked abstract Paul A. Scott, Nicholas G. Turner, Aman Chungh, John M. Morgan, and Paul R. Roberts

Varying implantable cardioverter defibrillator referral patterns from implanting and non-implanting hospitals
Europace Advance Access published on June 20, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1048-1051; doi:10.1093/europace/eup145 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ilia Panfilov, Nigel A. Lever, Bruce H. Smaill, and Peter D. Larsen

Ventricular fibrillation frequency from implanted cardioverter defibrillator devices
Europace Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1052-1056; doi:10.1093/europace/eup159 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Electrophysiology and Ablation

Get checked abstract Reginald Liew, Victoria Baker, Laura Richmond, Kim Rajappan, Dhiraj Gupta, Malcolm Finlay, Glyn Thomas, Mark Earley, Simon Sporton, Stuart Harris, and Richard Schilling

A randomized-controlled trial comparing conventional with minimal catheter approaches for the mapping and ablation of regular supraventricular tachycardias
Europace Advance Access published on May 2, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1057-1064; doi:10.1093/europace/eup108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ngai Yin Chan, Ngai Shing Mok, Chun Leung Lau, Ying Keung Lo, Chi Chung Choy, Suet Ting Lau, and Yuen Choi Choi

Treatment of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia by cryoablation with a 6 mm-tip catheter vs. radiofrequency ablation
Europace Advance Access published on May 17, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1065-1070; doi:10.1093/europace/eup121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gaetano Barbato, Valeria Carinci, Corrado Tomasi, Valeria Frassineti, Massimo Margheri, and Giuseppe Di Pasquale

Is electrocardiography a reliable tool for identifying patients with isthmus-dependent atrial flutter?
Europace Advance Access published on July 1, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1071-1076; doi:10.1093/europace/eup166 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hamid Bastani, Jonas Schwieler, Per Insulander, Fariborz Tabrizi, Frieder Braunschweig, Göran Kennebäck, Nikola Drca, Bita Sadigh, and Mats Jensen-Urstad

Acute and long-term outcome of cryoablation therapy of typical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia
Europace Advance Access published on July 4, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1077-1082; doi:10.1093/europace/eup177 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot, Laurent Groben, Frédéric Chometon, Jean Paul Lethor, Philippe Admant, Jean Louis Cloez, Irina Popescu, Cecile Marchal, Juanico Cedano, Ahmed Abdelaal, Olivier Huttin, Charif Tatar, Nacima Benzaghou, Berivan Azman, Arnaud Terrier De La Chaise, and François Marçon

Rapid and low-cost method to prove the nature of no documented tachycardia in children and teenagers without pre-excitation syndrome
Europace Advance Access published on April 24, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1083-1089; doi:10.1093/europace/eup093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BASIC RESEARCH

Get checked abstract Christopher Gemein, Patrick Schauerte, Nima Hatam, Obaida R. Rana, Erol Saygili, Christian Meyer, Christian Eickholt, Michael Schmid, Christian Knackstedt, Markus Zarse, and Karl Mischke

Targeting of cardiac autonomic plexus for modulation of intracardiac neural tone
Europace Advance Access published on June 26, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1090-1096; doi:10.1093/europace/eup160 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CONSENSUS STATEMENT

Get checked abstract Task force members, Johan Vijgen, Gianluca Botto, John Camm, Carl-Johan Hoijer, Werner Jung, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Andrzej Lubinski, Tone M. Norekvål, Maurizio Santomauro, Martin Schalij, Jean-Paul Schmid, and Panos Vardas

Consensus statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association: updated recommendations for driving by patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Europace Advance Access published on June 13, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1097-1107; doi:10.1093/europace/eup112 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Get checked abstract Hoong Sern Lim and Gregory Y.H. Lip

Defibrillation testing in patients with atrial fibrillation
Europace Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1108-1109; doi:10.1093/europace/eup157 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicola Bottoni, Fabio Quartieri, Gino Lolli, Matteo Iori, Antonio Manari, and Carlo Menozzi

Radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia: selective approach to the slow pathway via the cephalic veins
Europace Advance Access published on June 13, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1110-1111; doi:10.1093/europace/eup136 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Preben Bjerregaard and Timothy Brown

Severely malfunctioning defibrillator with cardiac resynchronization therapy showing no abnormalities during testing with the programming head in place
Europace Advance Access published on May 12, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1112-1114; doi:10.1093/europace/eup104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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

Ventricular fibrillation induced by a radiofrequency energy delivery for idiopathic premature ventricular contractions arising from the left ventricular anterior papillary muscle
Europace Advance Access published on April 24, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1115-1117; doi:10.1093/europace/eup092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Sabine Ernst and Ellison Berns

‘Two-by-two’ pulmonary vein isolation in the presence of a complete situs inversus and dextrocardia: use of magnetic navigation and 3D mapping with image integration
Europace Advance Access published on June 16, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1118-1119; doi:10.1093/europace/eup132 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Fadi Mansour, Eduard Guash, Antonio Berruezo, Josep Brugada, Jose Maria Tolosana, and Lluís Mont

Inappropriate shocks or inappropriate programming? A review of Guidant's^TM reconfirmation algorithm
Europace Advance Access published on May 13, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1120-1122; doi:10.1093/europace/eup116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Justin K.Y. Tay, Marc R. Dweck, C. Mark Francis, and Neil R. Grubb

Unusual complication of a migrant pacemaker lead
Europace Advance Access published on May 29, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1122-1124; doi:10.1093/europace/eup125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Marek Jastrzebski

Double fire or junctional ectopy?
Europace Advance Access published on June 5, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1127; doi:10.1093/europace/eup137 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laurent Roten and Hildegard Tanner

Double fire or junctional ectopy? Reply
Europace Advance Access published on June 13, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1127-1128; doi:10.1093/europace/eup138 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

S. Simon Modi, D. Jay Wright, and David R. Ramsdale

The externally placed ‘temporary-permanent’ generator
Europace Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 979; doi:10.1093/europace/eup144 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Nasis, Paul R. Antonis, and Sujith K. Seneviratne

320-detector row cardiac computed tomography in the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Europace Advance Access published on June 20, 2009
Europace 2009 11: 1125-1126; doi:10.1093/europace/eup146 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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