George Katritsis,Hugh Calkins
George Katritsis
For certain patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation is now an important, therapeutic, intervention. It is established that catheter ablation is more effective than antiarrhythmic drug therapy at maintaining middle-aged pati...
Philippe Charron,Eloisa Arbustini,Gisèle Bonne
Philippe Charron
Lamins are intermediate filament proteins able to polymerise and form an organised meshwork underlying the inner nuclear membrane in most differentiated somatic cells. Mutations in the LMNA gene, which encodes the two major lamin A and C is...
Vincent Probst,Stéphanie Chatel,Jean-Baptiste Gourraud et al.
Vincent Probst et al.
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a clinical entity characterised by an incomplete right bundle branch block associated with an ST segment elevation in the right precordial leads and a risk of ventricular arrhythmia and sudden death in the absence ...
Yousif Ahmad,Gregory Yh Lip
Yousif Ahmad
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are at increased thromboembolic risk, and they suffer more severe strokes with worse outcomes. Most thromboembolic complications of AF are eminently preventable with oral anticoagulation, and the incre...
Risk Stratification in Atrial Fibrillation Patients - A Review Focused on Mortality [0.03%]
房颤患者的危险分层-以死亡率为焦点的评述文章
Federico Lombardi
Federico Lombardi
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with increased mortality that is largely due to the severe co-morbidities of patients with this rhythm disturbance rather than to its electrocardiographic features. Available evidence indicated that ag...
Demosthenes Katritsis
Demosthenes Katritsis
Functional Substrate Mapping: A New Frontier in the Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia in Structural Heart Disease [0.03%]
功能基质标测：结构型心室心动过速治疗的新前沿
Functional substrate mapping has emerged as an essential tool for electrophysiologists, overcoming many limitations of conventional mapping techniques and demonstrating favourable long-term outcomes in clinical studies. However, a consensus...