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Leadless Pacemakers: Current Achievements and Future Perspectives
Author(s): Apostolos Ilias Vouliotis , Paul Roberts , Polychronis Dilaveris , et al Added: 8 months ago

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
EuroPCR 2022: Optimize PRO Interim Analysis Finds New Technique is "Best-in-Class"
Author(s): Kendra J Grubb Added: 1 year ago
Dr Kendra Grubb (Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center, GA, US) outlines the interim analysis of the Optimize PRO Study (NCT04091048), originally presented at EuroPCR 2022. Optimize PRO aimed to evaluate valve performance and procedural outcomes of optimised TAVR care using Medtronic's Evolut™ PRO and Evolut™ PRO+ devices. Findings are promising and show that no patients experienced a… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Melanie Maytin , Laurence M Epstein Added: 3 years ago
Early Techniques Lead extraction has undergone an explosive evolution since its inception as a rudimentary skill with limited technology and therapeutic options (see Figure 1). Early techniques involved simple manual traction, which frequently proved ineffective for chronically implanted leads and carried a high risk for myocardial avulsion, tamponade, and death.1–3 Bilgutay and colleagues… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Sana Amraoui , Ghoufrane Tlili , Elif Hindié , et al Added: 3 years ago
With ageing of the general population and broadening indications, the number of pacemaker recipients is steadily increasing. The incidence of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection, a dreaded major complication, is also rising.1 The diagnosis is based on the presence of an abscessed pocket, cutaneous breakthrough of the pulse generator or vegetations attached to the pacemaker lead… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Job title: Director of Cardiology
Dr Jitendra Singh Makkar is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist (Director of Cardiology, ETERNAL HOSPITAL-Jaipur India) with special interest and expertise in the field of clinical electrophysiology, pacemaker & heart failure device management. He has two decades of experience in the field of Cardiology and has worked with leading Cardiac Institutes across country. He… View more
Harry G Mond
Job title: Associate Professor
DrMond is an Associate Professor at both Melbourne and Monash Universities in Victoria, Australia. He has been performing pacemaker implantation since 1970 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dr Mond was a foundation committee member of NASPeXAM (IBHRE). Dr Mond has retired from pacemaker implantation, but is still responsible for the pacemaker clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has authored… View more
Comment on Leadless Pacemakers
Author(s): Zaki Akhtar , Manav Sohal , Mark M Gallagher Added: 8 months ago

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Job title: Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services
Dr Vivek Y. Reddy is Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services for The Mount Sinai Hospital and Director of Electrophysiology for the Mount Sinai Health System, and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Professor of Medicine in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr Reddy is one of the US's premier cardiac electrophysiologists. He leads a team… View more
Author(s): Markus Flesch Added: 3 years ago
Introduction Chronic heart failure (HF) is a common, malignant disease and is a major economic burden for healthcare systems in developed nations. It affects 5% to 10% of all people. In Germany, approximately 150,000 people are newly diagnosed with HF per year. Fifteen per cent of approximately 1.6 million HF patients in Germany are in advanced HF status, being classified as stage III-IV… View more

Heart Failure
Dr Armin Luik is an electrophysiologist at Medical clinic IV, Karlsruhe, Germany. Dr Luik specialises in pacemaker/defibrillator implantations, coronary interventions and mitral valve clipping. View more