ALLMedicine™ Arrhythmias Center

Aug 16th, 2022 - Heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to their low cost, ease of handling, and abundance of transgenic strains, rodents have become essential models for cardiovascular research. However, spontaneous lethal ca...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) are frequently prescribed to patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) for atrial arrhythmias or Fontan palliation but there is a paucity of data regarding time spent in the therapeutic range (TTR). We sought to det...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Treatment with certain drugs can augment the risk of developing malignant arrhythmias (e.g. torsades de pointes [TdP]). Hence, we examined the overall TdP risk drug use before out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and possible association with sho...

Aug 14th, 2022 - This case describes a 74-year-old male who presented with rapid atrial flutter in association with large atrial lipoma along the interatrial septum. Conversion to sinus rhythm revealed the electrocardiographic criteria for advanced interatrial blo...

Aug 13th, 2022 - Previously, direct monitoring of local activation at the communicating vein (CV) has been reported to be useful for the ablation of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) originating from the left ventricular (LV) summit. In this study, we evaluated the pe...

Jun 7th, 2022 - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is defined by the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of other potentially causative cardiac, systemic, syndromic, or metabolic diseases. Symptoms can be related to a range of pathophysiologic ...

May 3rd, 2022 - This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide electrophysiologists, cardiologists, other clinicians, and health care professionals in caring for patients with arrhythmic complications of neuromuscular disorders (NMDs). The doc...

Dec 12th, 2020 - As our understanding of the complications of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) evolve, subclinical cardiac pathology such as myocarditis, pericarditis, and right ventricular dysfunction in the absence of significant clinical symptoms represents ...

Nov 7th, 2020 - Blunt cardiac injuries range from myocardial concussion (commotio cordis) leading to fatal ventricular arrhythmias to myocardial contusion, cardiac chamber rupture, septal rupture, pericardial rupture, and valvular injuries. Blunt injuries account...

Aug 21st, 2020 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented substantial challenges to patient care and impacted health care delivery, including cardiac electrophysiology practice throughout the globe. Based upon the undetermined course and regional variabil...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Patients with persistent atrial fibrillation will be enrolled in this multi-center, randomized, prospective, single-blinded study. After catheter ablation (isolation) of the pulmonary veins (PVI) and while still in the cardiac electrophysiology la...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Background Premature ventricular contraction (PVC), also known as premature ventricular beat, is one of the most common symptomatic arrhythmias in clinical practice. PVCs may cause serious harm to patients as follow: 1. PVCs with considerable load...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Clinical relevance: The problem of PV reconnection and recurrent AF after catheter ablation for paroxysmal AF is one of the important challenges faced by treating physicians. Rationale: The understanding of the role contact force plays in adequate...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Light chain (AL) amyloidosis is a disease characterized by localized or systemic accumulation of amyloid fibrils in tissues caused by abnormal folding of light chain immunoglobulins and affecting organ functions. Due to the accumulation of abnorma...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease for which skin tightness is the hallmark. The disease is classified into 2 major subsets: limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) and diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) dependi...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Management of the cardiac complications of COVID-19 during pregnancy requires a "pregnancy heart team" to optimize patient care, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardiovascular Disease in Women committee writes in a new report. This multid...

Jul 7th, 2022 - Over roughly the past decade, there has been rapid development and swift uptake of consumer technology capable of recording physiologic data relevant to cardiac health, including physical activity, heart rate, electrocardiograms, and episodes of a...

Jun 20th, 2022 - Practice has gone back and forth on whether atrial fibrillation (AF) should be considered in the preoperative cardiovascular risk (CV) evaluation of patients slated for noncardiac surgery, and the Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI), currently widel...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Ventricular arrhythmias more commonly occur on days when there are higher levels of air pollution, especially with fine particulate matter (PM), a new study suggests. Investigators studied the relationship between air pollution and ventricular arr...

Apr 26th, 2022 - COVID-19 fatalities may have captured more attention lately, but heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 300,000 Americans this year will die of sudden cardiac arrest (also called sudden cardiac death, or SCD), where...