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EP — Europace
Volume 18 No. 9 September 2016
EDITORIALS
Pharmacoepidemiological comparisons between acenocoumarol and dabigatran: interpretation of data
reflecting clinical practice
Peter Brønnum Nielsen
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Longevity of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: still a long way to go
Jens Brock Johansen, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, and Niels C.F. Sandgaard
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REVIEWS
Human-based approaches to pharmacology and cardiology: an interdisciplinary and intersectorial workshop
Blanca Rodriguez, Annamaria Carusi, Najah Abi-Gerges, Rina Ariga, Oliver Britton, Gil Bub,
Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Rebecca A.B. Burton, Valentina Carapella, Louie Cardone-Noott, Matthew J. Daniels,
Mark R. Davies, Sara Dutta, Andre Ghetti, Vicente Grau, Stephen Harmer, Ivan Kopljar, Pier Lambiase,
Hua Rong Lu, Aurore Lyon, Ana Minchole, Anna Muszkiewicz, Julien Oster, Michelangelo Paci, Elisa Passini,
Stefano Severi, Peter Taggart, Andy Tinker, Jean-Pierre Valentin, Andras Varro, Mikael Wallman, and Xin Zhou
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Extra-cardiac stimulators: what do cardiologists need to know?
Alexandre Guinand, Stéphane Noble, Angela Frei, Julien Renard, Martin R. Tramer, and Haran Burri
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Atrial fibrillation
Antithrombotic therapy use in patients with atrial fibrillation before the era of non-vitamin K antagonist oral
anticoagulants: the Global Registry on Long-Term Oral Antithrombotic Treatment in Patients with Atrial
Fibrillation (GLORIA-AF) Phase I cohort
Menno V. Huisman, Chang Sheng Ma, Hans-Christoph Diener, Sergio J. Dubner, Jonathan L. Halperin,
Kenneth J. Rothman, Christine Teutsch, Nils Schoof, Eva Kleine, Dorothee B. Bartels, and Gregory Y.H. Lip, for
the GLORIA-AF Investigators
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Effectiveness and safety of dabigatran versus acenocoumarol in ‘real-world’ patients with atrial fibrillation
Jennie Korenstra, E. Petra J. Wijtvliet, Nic J.G.M. Veeger, Christiane A. Geluk, G. Louis Bartels, Jan L. Posma,
Margriet Piersma-Wichers, Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Michiel Rienstra, and Robert G. Tieleman
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Von Willebrand factor is associated with atrial fibrillation development in ischaemic patients after
cardiac surgery
Diana Hernández-Romero, Álvaro Lahoz, Vanessa Roldan, Eva Jover, Ana I. Romero-Aniorte, Carlos M. Martinez,
Rubén Jara-Rubio, José Marı́a Arribas, Arcadio Garcia-Alberola, Sergio Cánovas, Mariano Valdés, and
Francisco Marı́n
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Ablation for atrial fibrillation
Five-year efficacy of pulmonary vein antrum isolation as a primary ablation strategy for atrial fibrillation:
a single-centre cohort study
Cas Teunissen, Wil Kassenberg, Jeroen F. van der Heijden, Rutger J. Hassink, Vincent J.H.M. van Driel,
Nicolaas P.A. Zuithoff, Pieter A. Doevendans, and Peter Loh
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Outcomes after cryoablation vs. radiofrequency in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: impact of
pulmonary veins anatomy
Z. Khoueiry, J.-P. Albenque, R. Providencia, S. Combes, N. Combes, F. Jourda, P.A. Sousa, C. Cardin, J.-L. Pasquie,
T.T. Cung, F. Massin, E. Marijon, and S. Boveda
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Who is the operator, that is the question: a multicentre study of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Akinori Sairaku, Yukihiko Yoshida, Yukiko Nakano, Mayuho Maeda, Haruo Hirayama, Haruki Hashimoto, and
Yasuki Kihara
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Incidence and outcomes of cerebrovascular events complicating catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Yang Liu, Xianzhang Zhan, Yumei Xue, Hai Deng, Xianhong Fang, Hongtao Liao, Jun Huang, Fangzhou Liu,
Yuanhong Liang, Wei Wei, and Shulin Wu
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Sudden death and ICDs
Battery drain in daily practice and medium-term projections on longevity of cardioverter-defibrillators:
an analysis from a remote monitoring database
Giuseppe Boriani, Philippe Ritter, Mauro Biffi, Matteo Ziacchi, Igor Diemberger, Cristian Martignani,
Cinzia Valzania, Sergio Valsecchi, Luigi Padeletti, and Fredrik Gadler
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CLINICAL RESEARCH
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Serum amine-based metabolites and their association with outcomes in primary prevention implantable
cardioverter-defibrillator patients
Yiyi Zhang, Elena Blasco-Colmenares, Amy C. Harms, Barry London, Indrani Halder, Madhurmeet Singh,
Samuel C. Dudley, Rebecca Gutmann, Eliseo Guallar, Thomas Hankemeier, Gordon F. Tomaselli, and Alan Cheng
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Pacing and resynchronization therapy
Reduction of inappropriate anti-tachycardia pacing therapies and shocks by a novel suite of detection
algorithms in heart failure patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators: a historical
comparison of a prospective database
Maurizio Lunati, Alessandro Proclemer, Giuseppe Boriani, Maurizio Landolina, Emanuela Locati,
Roberto Rordorf, Elisabetta Daleffe, Renato Pietro Ricci, Domenico Catanzariti, Luca Tomasi, Michele Gulizia,
Maria Stella Baccillieri, Giulio Molon, and Maurizio Gasparini, on behalf of the ClinicalService
Cardiological Centres
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Pacing and sensing optimization of permanent His-bundle pacing in cardiac resynchronization therapy/
implantable cardioverter defibrillators patients: value of integrated bipolar configuration
Lan Su, Lei Xu, Sheng-jie Wu, and Wei-jian Huang
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Cardiac electrophysiology
Evaluation of a new very low dose imaging protocol: feasibility and impact on X-ray dose levels in
electrophysiology procedures
Felix Bourier, Tilko Reents, Sonia Ammar-Busch, Alessandra Buiatti, Marc Kottmaier, Verena Semmler,
Marta Telishevska, Amir Brkic, Christian Grebmer, Carsten Lennerz, Christof Kolb, Gabriele Hessling, and
Isabel Deisenhofer
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Channelopathies
Brugada syndrome: clinical presentation and genotype—correlation with magnetic resonance imaging
parameters
Boris Rudic, Rainer Schimpf, Christian Veltmann, Christina Doesch, Erol Tülümen, Stefan O. Schoenberg,
Martin Borggrefe, and Theano Papavassiliu
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Novel electrocardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Velislav N. Batchvarov, Rachel Bastiaenen, Pieter G. Postema, Elaine N. Clark, Peter W. Macfarlane,
Arthur A.M. Wilde, and Elijah R. Behr
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Syncope and event loop recorders
Standardized algorithm for cardiac pacing in older patients affected by severe unpredictable reflex syncope:
3-year insights from the Syncope Unit Project 2 (SUP 2) study
Michele Brignole, Francesco Arabia, Fabrizio Ammirati, Marco Tomaino, Fabio Quartieri, Martina Rafanelli,
Attilio Del Rosso, Maria Rita Vecchi, Vitantonio Russo, and Germano Gaggioli, on behalf of the Syncope Unit
Project 2 (SUP 2) investigators
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EP WIRE
Implantation of subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators in Europe: results of the European
Heart Rhythm Association survey
Serge Boveda, Radoslaw Lenarczyk, Kristina Haugaa, Stefano Fumagalli, Antonio Hernandez Madrid,
Pascal Defaye, Paul Broadhurst, and Nikolaos Dagres
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BASIC SCIENCE
Sex-dependent alterations of Ca21 cycling in human cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
Thomas H. Fischer, Jonas Herting, Jörg Eiringhaus, Steffen Pabel, Nico H. Hartmann, David Ellenberger,
Martin Friedrich, André Renner, Jan Gummert, Lars S. Maier, Markus Zabel, Gerd Hasenfuss, and Samuel Sossalla
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CASE EXPRESS REPORTS
A useful irrigated tip to cannulate distal coronary sinus
J. Fedida, C. Lepiece, and S. Knecht
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Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular node: can an electrophysiological study predict sudden death?
Kazutaka Ueda, Osamu Tagusari, and Masashi Kasao
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High-density biatrial activation mapping during typical atrial flutter after bicavopulmonary bypass
Philippe Maury, Stefano Capellino, and Sebastien Hascoet
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Twiddler’s syndrome with a baroreflex stimulator device
Vincent Galand, Raphaël P. Martins, and Christophe Leclercq
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Reduced long-term overall mortality in heart failure patients with prolonged QRS treated with CRT combined
with ICD vs. heart failure patients with narrow QRS treated with ICD only
Pietro Palmisano, Michele Accogli, Ennio Carmine Luigi Pisanò, Maria Zaccaria, Sergio De Blasi,
Maria Antonietta Ponzetta, Sergio Valsecchi, Giovanni Milanese, Maurelio Lauretti, and Francesco Magliari
IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
Intracardiac drifting iceberg: a worrisome incident during cryoablation
Adolfo Fontenla, Lola Villagraz, and Marı́a López-Gil
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