Volume 17 - Issue 8 - August 2017

Featured Article

Cover Story

Remote Monitoring of Heart Failure: A Single-Center Experience

08/03/2017

Interview with Jodie Elrod

In this interview, Jonathan Rosman, MD, FACC, FHRS talks about his approach to remote monitoring of congestive heart failure (CHF).

In this interview, Jonathan...

08/03/2017

EP Lab Digest

Cover Story

From the Mercury Capillary Electrometer to the Wireless, Battery-Less Pacemaker: State-of-the-Art Innovations in the Treatment of Arrhythmia

08/03/2017

Payam Safavi-Naeini, MD¹, Brian D. Greet, MD², David Burkland, MD², Mathews M. John, MEng¹, Anand V. Ganapathy, MBE¹, Abdi Rasekh, MD², Mohammad Saeed, MD², Joanna Esther
Molina Razavi, MD², Mehdi Razavi, MD^1,2
¹Department of Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Payam Safavi-Naeini, MD1, Brian D. Gr...

In this article, we provide a brief review of the historical progression of cardiac electrophysiology as well as highlight recent developments in our research lab to advance the treatment of arrhythmia. Background of Cardiac...

In this article, we provide a...

08/03/2017

EP Lab Digest

Column

Letter from the Editor

In Recognition of the Contributions by Pablo Denes, MD

08/06/2017

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

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

The origin of much of what we do in the electrophysiology (EP) laboratory has been forgotten. For example, it is now common for people to refer to an AH “jump” when describing the abrupt increase in the AH interval with an increasingly...

The origin of much of what we do...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Feature Interview

Napa Valley Atrial Fibrillation Symposium

08/06/2017

Interview by Jodie Elrod

In this interview, EP Lab Digest speaks with Gan Dunnington, MD about this upcoming conference taking place August 24th to 27th.

In this interview, EP Lab Digest...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Spotlight Interview

Spotlight Interview: Ablation in Paradise: The Queen’s Medical Center

08/03/2017

David Singh, MD
Electrophysiologist, The Queens Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine
Honolulu, Hawaii

David Singh, MD Electrophysiologist, ...

The Queen’s Medical Center is the largest private hospital in Hawai‘i, licensed to operate with 505 acute care beds and 28 sub-acute beds. As the leading medical referral center in the Pacific Basin, Queen’s offers a comprehensive range of...

The Queen’s Medical Center is...

08/03/2017

EP Lab Digest

EP Docs to Provide Service Abroad

08/06/2017

Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC
Raleigh, North Carolina

Kevin Campbell, MD, FACC Raleigh, Nor...

This month, Dr. Campbell will lead a medical relief team to the island of Batiki, a small atoll off the coast of Fiji. The island is 12 square kilometers and home to 200 native Fijians.

This month, Dr. Campbell will...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Feature

Case Study

Fast/Slow Atypical AVNRT: Differentiating Subforms

08/06/2017

George Joseph, MD, FACC and Thomas Stratton, CEPS
St. Francis Hospital, EP lab
Charleston, West Virginia

George Joseph, MD, FACC and Thomas St...

In this article, we present a case describing diagnosis and treatment of AVNRT, with the specific mechanism being fast/slow atypical AVNRT.

In this article, we present a...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Case Study

Use of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System for Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

08/06/2017

Erik Wissner, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Erik Wissner, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS Dir...

In addition to conventional radiofrequency catheter ablation and cryoballoon ablation, the latest technology to receive FDA premarket approval for PVI was the visually guided laser balloon (VGLB, HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System,...

In addition to conventional...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Case Study

Twiddler’s Syndrome: Utilizing New ICD Technology to Help Treat an Old Problem

08/06/2017

Michelle Glow, RT(R), RCIS, Nathan W. Webb, RT(R), and Matthew P. Latacha, MD, FACC, FHRS,
Nebraska Methodist Hospital,
Omaha, Nebraska

Michelle Glow, RT(R), RCIS, Nathan W....

Twiddler’s syndrome is an infrequent though well-described complication of cardiac device therapy. Here we describe a unique presentation of this syndrome manifesting as “A-V sequential pacing” of the left pectoralis muscle and diaphragm.

Twiddler’s syndrome is an...

08/06/2017

EP Lab Digest

Case Study

Mapping and Ablation of an Atypical Left Atrial Flutter Using the EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System

08/06/2017

Adam R. Shapira, MD, FACC, FHRS

Advanced Heart Care, PA; Heart Hospital Baylor Plano
Plano, Texas

Adam R. Shapira, MD, FACC, FHRS Adva...

In the following case report, an atypical left atrial flutter was mapped and successfully ablated using the EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System.

In the following case report, an...

08/06/2017

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Volume 17 - Issue 8 - August 2017