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EP — Europace Volume 17 No. 7 July 2015 EDITORIALS Reduction in ventricular arrhythmias and mortality in the primaries: a real-life win — win for CRT-Ds? Nishaki K. Mehta and William T. Abraham 1001 Patients with congenital heart disease: how to determine the eligibility for implantation of a subcutaneous implantable defibrillator? Ian G. Crozier and Dominic A.M.J. Theuns 1003 Antitachycardia pacing for termination of ventricular tachyarrhythmias: should we use it? Anne-Christine Ruwald and James P. Daubert 1005 REVIEW Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants and atrial fibrillation guidelines in practice: barriers to and strategies for optimal implementation A. John Camm, Fausto J. Pinto, Graeme J. Hankey, Felicita Andreotti, and F.D. Richard Hobbs on behalf of the Writing Committee of the Action for Stroke Prevention alliance 1007 CLINICAL RESEARCH 1018 Cost-effectiveness of mass screening for untreated atrial fibrillation using intermittent ECG recording Mattias Aronsson, Emma Svennberg, Mårten Rosenqvist, Johan Engdahl, Faris Al-Khalili, Leif Friberg, Viveka Frykman-Kull, and Lars-Åke Levin 1023 Ablation for atrial fibrillation Comparison of ‘anatomically designed’ and ‘point-by-point’ catheter ablations for human atrial fibrillation in terms of procedure timing and costs in German hospitals Gunnar Klein, Lars Lickfett, Jürgen Schreieck, Thomas Deneke, Marcus Wieczorek, for the FAST-PVI Study Group, J. Burkowitz, Lourdes Alvarez-Ossorio, and Bernd Brüggenjürgen 1030 Clinical significance of early atrial arrhythmia type and timing after single ring isolation of the pulmonary veins Chrishan Joseph Nalliah, Toon Wei Lim, Eddy Kizana, Pierre Qian, Pramesh Kovoor, Aravinda Thiagalingam, David Leslie Ross, and Stuart Phillip Thomas 1038 Remotely controlled steerable sheath improves result and procedural parameters of atrial fibrillation ablation with magnetic navigation Abdelkarim Errahmouni, Decebal Gabriel Latcu, Sok-Sithikun Bun, Nicolas Rijo, Céline Dugourd, and Nadir Saoudi 1045 The ratio of early transmitral flow velocity (E) to early mitral annular velocity (Em) predicts improvement in left ventricular systolic and diastolic function 1 year after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation In-Soo Kim, Tae-Hoon Kim, Chi-Young Shim, Hee-Sun Mun, Jae Sun Uhm, Boyoung Joung, Geu-Ru Hong, Moon-Hyoung Lee, and Hui-Nam Pak 1051 Sudden death and ICDs Potential eligibility of congenital heart disease patients for subcutaneous implantable cardioverterdefibrillator based on surface electrocardiogram mapping Mehmood Zeb, Nicholas Curzen, Gruschen Veldtman, Arthur Yue, Paul Roberts, David Wilson, and John Morgan 1059 Clinical course and prognostic relevance of antitachycardia pacing-terminated ventricular tachyarrhythmias in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients Thomas Kleemann, Margit Strauss, Kleopatra Kouraki, and Ralf Zahn 1068 Pacing and resynchronization therapy The safety and efficacy of antithrombotic therapy in patients undergoing cardiac rhythm device implantation: a meta-analysis Xiaowei Yang, Zhongsu Wang, Yong Zhang, Xiangcui Yin, and Yinglong Hou 1076 Downloaded from by guest on October 25, 2016 Atrial fibrillation The risk of atrial fibrillation in the general male population: a lifetime follow-up of 50-year-old men Zacharias Mandalenakis, Lotta Von Koch, Henry Eriksson, Mikael Dellborg, Kenneth Caidahl, Lennart Welin, Annika Rosengren, and Per-Olof Hansson 1085 Preoperative skin antiseptics for prevention of cardiac implantable electronic device infections: a historicalcontrolled interventional trial comparing aqueous against alcoholic povidone-iodine solutions Antoine Da Costa, Claire Tulane, Virginie Dauphinot, Jérémy Terreaux, Cécile Romeyer-Bouchard, Alexie Gate-Martinet, Marie Levallois, and Karl Isaaz 1092 Cardiac electrophysiology Atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: prevalence, electrophysiologic characteristics, and tachycardia circuit Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Ali Sepahpour, Joseph E. Marine, George D. Katritsis, Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat, Hugh Calkins, Edward Rowland, and Mark E. Josephson 1099 The QRS morphology pattern in V5R is a novel and simple parameter for differentiating the origin of idiopathic outflow tract ventricular arrhythmias Miyako Igarashi, Akihiko Nogami, Yukio Sekiguchi, Kenji Kuroki, Hiro Yamasaki, Takeshi Machino, Yoshiaki Yui, Kojiro Ogawa, Ahmed Karim Talib, Nobuyuki Murakoshi, Keisuke Kuga, and Kazutaka Aonuma 1107 Ablation of typical atrial flutter using a non-fluoroscopic catheter tracking system vs. conventional fluoroscopy—results from a prospective randomized study Katharina Schoene, Sascha Rolf, Denis Schloma, Silke John, Arash Arya, Borislav Dinov, Sergio Richter, Andreas Bollmann, Gerhard Hindricks, and Philipp Sommer 1117 An easy-to-use, operator-independent, clinical model to predict the left vs. right ventricular outflow tract origin of ventricular arrhythmias Diego Penela, Marta De Riva, Csaba Herczku, Valentina Catto, Salvatore Pala, Juan Fernández-Armenta, Juan Acosta, Laura Cipolletta, David Andreu, Roger Borras, Jose Rios, Lluis Mont, Josep Brugada, Corrado Carbucicchio, Katja Zeppenfeld, and Antonio Berruezo 1122 Patient discomfort following catheter ablation and rhythm device surgery Kerstin Bode, Ole-A. Breithardt, Manuela Kreuzhuber, Meinhard Mende, Philipp Sommer, Sergio Richter, Michael Doering, Borislav Dinov, Sascha Rolf, Arash Arya, Nikos Dagres, Gerhard Hindricks, and Andreas Bollmann 1129 Ventricular arrhythmias in aortic valve stenosis before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation Donatella Tempio, Giusi Paola Pruiti, Sergio Conti, Salvo Andrea Romano, Elisa Tavano, Davide Capodanno, Claudio Liotta, Angelo Di Grazia, Corrado Tamburino, and Valeria Calvi 1136 Syncope Costs of unstructured investigation of unexplained syncope: insights from a micro-costing analysis of the observational PICTURE registry Nils Edvardsson, Claudia Wolff, Stelios Tsintzos, Guido Rieger, and Nicholas J. Linker 1141 EP WIRE Use of fluoroscopy in clinical electrophysiology in Europe: results of the European Heart Rhythm Association Survey Heidi L. Estner, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Jian Chen, Nikolaos Dagres, Antonio Hernandez-Madrid, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, and Scientific Initiative Committee, European Heart Rhythm Association 1149 TECHNICAL ISSUES Transseptal puncture from the jugular vein and balloon cryoablation for atrial fibrillation in a patient with azygos continuation of an interrupted inferior vena cava Artur Baszko, Piotr Kałmucki, Rafał Dankowski, Magdalena Łanocha, Tomasz Siminiak, and Andrzej Szyszka 1153 A new trick to a routine procedure: taking the fear out of the axillary vein stick using the 3588 caudal view Felix Yang and Guy Kulbak 1157 CASE EXPRESS REPORTS Supraventricular tachycardia with cycle length variation and apparent VA dissociation: what is the mechanism? Joerg Lauschke, Ralph Schneider, and Dietmar Bänsch 1037 Inappropriate shocks by subcutaneous defibrillator in a patient with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: problem fixed Giuseppe Allocca, Nadir Sitta, and Giovanni Turiano 1067 Downloaded from by guest on October 25, 2016 Time-dependent risk reduction of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in cardiac resynchronization therapy patients: a MADIT-RIT sub-study Martin Stockburger, Arthur J. Moss, Brian Olshansky, Helmut Klein, Scott McNitt, Claudio Schuger, James P. Daubert, Ilan Goldenberg, Anne-Christine H. Ruwald, Bela Merkely, Wojciech Zareba, and Valentina Kutyifa Radiofrequency catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia caused by the tip of a defibrillation lead Alan Bulava, Martin Eisenberger, and Jiri Hanis 1091 Unusual cause of transient atrioventricular block during cavotricuspid isthmus ablation for typical right atrial flutter Baudouin Lanthier, Sébastien Marchandise, and Jean-Benoı̂t le Polain de Waroux 1098 Successful ablation of an epicardial ventricular tachycardia by video-assisted thoracoscopy Tolga Aksu, Tumer Erdem Guler, and Kivanc Yalin 1116 Downloaded from by guest on October 25, 2016 Open Access Paper Visit EP —EUROPACE’s mobile site http://m.europace.oxfordjournals.org/ www.europace.oxfordjournals.org