Atrial fibrillation: strategies to control, combat, and cure

NS Peters, RJ Schilling, P Kanagaratnam, V Markides - The Lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
Atrial fibrillation is the commonest clinical arrhythmia, is increasing in incidence and
prevalence, and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The arrhythmia may …

Patterns of myocardial injury in recovered troponin-positive COVID-19 patients assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

T Kotecha, DS Knight, Y Razvi, K Kumar… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Troponin elevation is common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but
underlying aetiologies are ill-defined. We used multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic …

Opportunity to increase life span in narrow QRS cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients by deactivating ventricular pacing: evidence from randomized controlled …

SMA Sohaib, JA Finegold, SS Nijjer, R Hossain… - JACC: Heart Failure, 2015 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study examined the time course of clinical events in cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) trials. Background: Recent randomized controlled trial …

[PDF][PDF] Left atrial appendage occlusion for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: multicentre experience with the AMPLATZER Cardiac Plug

A Tzikas, S Shakir, S Gafoor, H Omran, S Berti… - …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Aims: To investigate the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of left atrial appendage occlusion
(LAAO) with the AMPLATZER Cardiac Plug (ACP) for stroke prevention in patients with atrial …

Worldwide survey of COVID-19–associated arrhythmias

EJ Coromilas, S Kochav, I Goldenthal… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to over 1 million deaths
worldwide and has been associated with cardiac complications including cardiac …

Pulmonary venous isolation by antral ablation with a large cryoballoon for treatment of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation: medium-term outcomes and non …

P Kojodjojo, MD O'Neill, PB Lim, L Malcolm-Lawes… - Heart, 2010 - heart.bmj.com
Background To prevent atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after catheter ablation, pulmonary
venous isolation (PVI) at an antral level is more effective than segmental ostial ablation …

His resynchronization versus biventricular pacing in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block

AD Arnold, MJ Shun-Shin, D Keene, JP Howard… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: His bundle pacing is a new method for delivering cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT). Objectives: The authors performed a head-to-head, high-precision, acute …

[HTML][HTML] Experience of robotic catheter ablation in humans using a novel remotely steerable catheter sheath

P Kanagaratnam, M Koa-Wing, DT Wallace… - Journal of Interventional …, 2008 - Springer
Background A novel remotely controlled steerable guide catheter has been developed to
enable precise manipulation and stable positioning of any eight French (Fr) or smaller …

Spatial resolution requirements for accurate identification of drivers of atrial fibrillation

CH Roney, CD Cantwell, JD Bayer… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Recent studies have demonstrated conflicting mechanisms underlying atrial
fibrillation (AF), with the spatial resolution of data often cited as a potential reason for the …

Age‐related changes in human left and right atrial conduction

P Kojodjojo, P Kanagaratnam… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Advancing age is an independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF), which is
considered to be initiated by ectopic triggers and maintained by an arrhythmogenic …