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EP — Europace
Volume 17
No. 6
June 2015
EDITORIALS
Monitoring risk for oesophageal thermal injury during radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation:
does the characteristic of the temperature probe matter?
Mauricio Scanavacca and Cristiano F. Pisani
835
The long and short of the PR-interval: relation to cardiovascular outcome in patients with coronary heart
disease
Casper N. Bang and Peter M. Okin
838
REVIEW
Management of antithrombotic therapy in patients undergoing electrophysiological device surgery
Valerio Zacà, Rossella Marcucci, Guido Parodi, Ugo Limbruno, Pasquale Notarstefano, Paolo Pieragnoli,
Andrea Di Cori, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, and Giancarlo Casolo
840
CLINICAL RESEARCH
855
The development of AF over time in patients with permanent pacemakers: objective assessment with
pacemaker diagnostics demonstrates distinct patterns of AF
Conn Sugihara, Rick Veasey, Nick Freemantle, Steve Podd, Steve Furniss, and Neil Sulke
864
Ablation for atrial fibrillation
Adenosine testing after second-generation cryoballoon ablation (ATSCA) study improves clinical success rate
for atrial fibrillation
Narendra Kumar, Trang Dinh, Kevin Phan, Carl Timmermans, Suzanne Philippens, Willem Dassen,
Nousjka Vranken, Laurent Pison, Jos Maessen, and Harry J. Crijns
871
Low contact force and force— time integral predict early recovery and dormant conduction revealed by
adenosine after pulmonary vein isolation
Jean-Benoı̂t le Polain de Waroux, Rukshen Weerasooriya, Kalilur Anvardeen, Cynthia Barbraud,
Sebastien Marchandise, Christophe De Meester, Cedric Goesaert, Ivone Reis, and Christophe Scavee
877
Subclavian vein pacing and venous pressure waveform measurement for phrenic nerve monitoring during
cryoballoon ablation of atrial fibrillation
Justin Ghosh, Suresh Singarayar, Peter Kabunga, and Mark A. McGuire
884
Comparison between single- and multi-sensor oesophageal temperature probes during atrial fibrillation
ablation: thermodynamic characteristics
Cory M. Tschabrunn, Joshua Silverstein, Tyler Berzin, Ethan Ellis, Alfred E. Buxton, Mark E. Josephson, and
Elad Anter
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Headache during cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation
Laurent Pison, Pim Peeters, Yuri Blaauw, Kevin Vernooy, Narendra Kumar, Suzanne Philippens, Harry J. Crijns,
Johan Vlaeyen, Jean Schoenen, and Carl Timmermans
898
Sudden death and ICDs
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and subsequent cancer risk: a nationwide population-based cohort
study
Susanne Bendesgaard Pedersen, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Hans Erik Bøtker, Dóra Körmendiné Farkas, Morten Schmidt,
and Henrik Toft Sørensen
902
Various mechanisms and clinical phenotypes in electrical short circuits of high-voltage devices: report of four
cases and review of the literature
Takuo Tsurugi, Shogo Matsui, Hiroshi Nakajima, Nobuhiro Nishii, Toshihiro Honda, and Yoshiaki Kaneko
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Atrial fibrillation
Statin pretreatment and risk of in-hospital atrial fibrillation among patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a
collaborative meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials
Giuseppe Patti, Rachel Bennett, Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai, Christopher P. Cannon, Ilaria Cavallari,
Massimo Chello, Annunziata Nusca, Simona Mega, Carlos Caorsi, Cristiano Spadaccio, Young Keun On,
Vito Mannacio, Ocal Berkan, Mehmet B. Yilmaz, Nurkay Katrancioglu, Qiang Ji, Antonios Kourliouros,
Çağdaş Baran, Vincenzo Pasceri, Ahmet Rüçhan Akar, Juan Carlos Kaski, Germano Di Sciascio, and
Kausik K. Ray
915
Anatomical variations of the coronary sinus valve (Thebesian valve): implications for electrocardiological
procedures
Mateusz K. Hołda, Wiesława Klimek-Piotrowska, Mateusz Koziej, and Małgorzata Mazur
921
Cardiac electrophysiology
Fluoroscopy integrated 3D mapping significantly reduces radiation exposure during ablation for a wide
spectrum of cardiac arrhythmias
Marian Christoph, Carsten Wunderlich, Stefanie Moebius, Mathias Forkmann, Judith Sitzy, Jozef Salmas,
Julia Mayer, Yan Huo, Christopher Piorkowski, and Thomas Gaspar
928
3D delayed-enhanced magnetic resonance sequences improve conducting channel delineation prior to
ventricular tachycardia ablation
David Andreu, Jose T. Ortiz-Pérez, Juan Fernández-Armenta, Esther Guiu, Juan Acosta, Susanna Prat-González,
Teresa M. De Caralt, Rosario J. Perea, César Garrido, Lluis Mont, Josep Brugada, and Antonio Berruezo
938
Invasive electrophysiological evaluation and ablation in patients with asymptomatic ventricular
pre-excitation persistent at exercise stress test
Roberto De Ponti, Raffaella Marazzi, Lorenzo A. Doni, Valentina Cremona, Jacopo Marazzato, and
Jorge A. Salerno-Uriarte
946
Ablation of focal atrial tachycardia from the non-coronary aortic cusp: case series and review of the
literature
Rypko J. Beukema, Jaap Jan J. Smit, Ahmet Adiyaman, Lieve Van Casteren, Peter Paul H.M. Delnoy,
Anand R. Ramdat Misier, and Arif Elvan
953
Radiofrequency catheter ablation at the non-coronary cusp for the treatment of para-hisian accessory
pathways
Gang Xu, Tong Liu, Enzhao Liu, Lan Ye, Michael Shehata, Xunzhang Wang, and Guangping Li
962
Electrocardiology and risk stratification
Fragmented QRS for the prediction of sudden cardiac death: a meta-analysis
James A. Rosengarten, Paul A. Scott, and John M. Morgan
969
Clinical outcome as a function of the PR-interval—there is virtue in moderation: data from the Duke Databank
for cardiovascular disease
Fredrik Holmqvist, Kevin L Thomas, Samuel Broderick, Mads Ersbøll, Devinder Singh, Karen Chiswell,
Linda K Shaw, Donald D Hegland, Eric J Velazquez, and James P Daubert
978
EHRA SURVEY
Oral anticoagulant therapy for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing ablation:
results from the First European Snapshot Survey on Procedural Routines for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
(ESS-PRAFA)
Tatjana S. Potpara, Torben B. Larsen, Jean Claude Deharo, Ole Rossvoll, Nikolaos Dagres, Derick Todd,
Laurent Pison, Alessandro Proclemer, Helmut Purefellner, and Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Conducted by the
Scientific Initiatives Committee of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)
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EP WIRE
How are European patients at risk of malignant arrhythmias or sudden cardiac death identified and informed
about their risk profile: results of the European Heart Rhythm Association survey
Alessandro Proclemer, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Nikolaos Dagres, Elena Sciaraffia, Derick Todd, and
Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist, conducted by the Scientific Initiative Committee, European Heart Rhythm
Association
994
CASE EXPRESS REPORTS
A protruding lesion on the previous pulmonary vein isolation line in a case with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Kazuyoshi Suenari, Hidekazu Hirao, and Hironori Ueda
837
A case of ridge-related re-entrant atrial tachycardia utilizing the vein of Marshall to span a conduction gap at
the mitral isthmus scar
Rintaro Hojo, Seiji Fukamizu, and Harumizu Sakurada
854
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Pacing and resynchronization therapy
A stepwise electrocardiographic algorithm for differentiation of mid-septal vs. apical right ventricular lead
positioning: the SPICE ECG substudy
George Andrikopoulos, Stylianos Tzeis, Stefan Asbach, Verena Semmler, Carsten Lennerz, Ulrich Solzbach,
Christian Grebmer, Axel Kloppe, Norbert Klein, Socratis Pastromas, Jürgen Biermann, and Christof Kolb,
on Behalf of the SPICE Study Investigators
J-wave syndrome with giant negative T-wave in severely activated arrhythmogenicity on 12-lead
electrocardiography
Shogo Ito, Tomohito Inage, and Yoshihiro Fukumoto
937
Switch to DDD mode in SafeR algorithm could be delayed in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and simultaneous
occurrence of complete atrioventricular block
Carmen Muñoz-Esparza, Juan Martı́nez Sánchez, and Arcadio Garcı́a Alberola
961
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Comment on the article by Trolese T et al.
Wouter M. van Everdingen, Berry van Gelder, and Mathias Meine
Author’s reply
Luca Trolese, Christoph Bode, and Stefan Asbach
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