Volume 21 - Issue 2 - February 2021

Featured Article

Letter from the Editor

Help Vaccinate EP Industry Representatives

02/04/2021

Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Editor-in-Chief

Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC, FHRS, Ed...

Many frontline health care workers in the United States are receiving their second dose of coronavirus vaccinations. Hospitals have largely done an outstanding job of following federal and state guidelines during distribution and rapidly...

Many frontline health care...

02/04/2021

EP Lab Digest

Cover Story

Macroreentrant and Localized Reentrant Tachycardias Involving the Marshall Bundle After Left Atrial Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

02/04/2021

Venkat N. Tholakanahalli, MD, FHRS; Chris Johnson, RTRCI, RCES; Frank E. Farnsworth, RT; Neeraj Sathnur, MD; Darshan Krishnappa, MD; Maria T. Anderson, MD, FACC; Selcuk Adabag, MD, MS, FHRS
Division of Cardiology, Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology; Minneapolis VA Health Care System; University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota

Venkat N. Tholakanahalli, MD, FHRS; C...

Atrial flutter (AFL) involving the vein of Marshall (VOM) after left atrial (LA) ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) is a recognized form of atrial flutter. In one series reported by Vlachos et al,1 the Marshall bundle (MB)...

Atrial flutter (AFL) involving...

02/04/2021

EP Lab Digest

Cover Story

COVID-19 Cardiotoxicity and Cardioprotection

02/03/2021

Mariam Bonyadi Camacho, PhD¹; Philip A. Kocheril²; Abraham G. Kocheril, MD, FACC, FACP, FHRS^1,3,4

¹University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ²Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; ³OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute, Urbana, Illinois; ⁴Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, Illinois

Mariam Bonyadi Camacho, PhD1; Philip ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a pandemic. Initial reports consisted primarily of COVID-19 pneumonia cases. However, an explosion of research has led to the...

On March 11, 2020, the World...

02/03/2021

EP Lab Digest

Same Day Discharge for AF Ablation: A New Standard of Care through Early Ambulation Using VASCADE MVP®

Feature

EP Research

Comparison in Clinical Outcomes Between Leadless and Conventional Transvenous Pacemaker Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

02/04/2021

Kazuaki Okuyama, MD; Masaki Izumo, MD; Kenichi Sasaki, MD; Shingo Kuwata, MD; Toshiki Kaihara, MD; Mika Watanabe, MD; Masashi Koga, MD; Ryo Kamijima, MD; Makoto Takano, MD; Yuki Ishibashi, MD; Yasuhiro Tanabe, MD; Takumi Higuma, MD; Tomoo Harada, MD; Yoshihiro J. Akashi, MD

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Kazuaki Okuyama, MD; Masaki Izumo, MD...

Patients with leadless PM following TAVI may have shorter hospital stays, and clinical outcomes can be comparable with DDD-PMs.

Patients with leadless PM...

02/04/2021

EP Lab Digest

Case Study

Use of Novel Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device in Case of Difficult Left Atrial Appendage Anatomy

02/04/2021

Senthil Thambidorai, MD^1,2; Som A. Bailey, MD¹; Rodney P. Horton, MD²; Andrea Natale, MD²

¹Medical City Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas;
²Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, Texas

Senthil Thambidorai, MD1,2; Som A. Ba...

We describe a patient with difficult LAA anatomy that was overcome using the WATCHMAN FLX, when the older-generation device could not be implanted.

We describe a patient with...

02/04/2021

EP Lab Digest

Column

Feature Interview

Considerations for a New Heart Rhythm Clinic: Experience at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare

02/04/2021

Interview by Jodie Elrod

In this interview, EP Lab Digest speaks with electrophysiologist Venkata Bavikati, MD, MPH about the new Heart Rhythm Clinic at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH). How will the new Heart Rhythm Clinic complement the care provided at...

In this interview, EP Lab Digest...

02/04/2021

EP Lab Digest

Spotlight Interview

Spotlight Interview: University of Washington Medical Center

02/04/2021

Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHRS,

Seattle, Washington

Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHRS...

EP Lab Digest talks with Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHRS about this program in Seattle, Washington.

EP Lab Digest talks with Nazem...

02/04/2021

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Volume 21 - Issue 2 - February 2021