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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 891 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 909 Downloaded from by guest on November 18, 2016 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) 986 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 Downloaded from by guest on November 18, 2016 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 999 1000 Downloaded from by guest on November 18, 2016 Open Access Paper Visit EP —EUROPACE’s mobile site http://m.europace.oxfordjournals.org/ www.europace.oxfordjournals.org