Palpitations
Palpitations Michael H. Lehmann DEFINITIONS Palpitations refers to a subjective awareness of one’s heartbeat, often with the perception of some type of heart-rhythm irregularity, acceleration, or both. Patients use a…
Chest Pain
Chest Pain A. David Goldberg Thippeswamy H. Murthy Peter G. Hagan DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF PROBLEM Chest pain can be broadly defined as any discomfort in the anterior thorax occurring…
Complications
Complications Conor Barrett Robert Schweikert Walid Saliba Jennifer Cummings J. David Burkhardt Oussama Wazni Andrea Natale All invasive procedures carry associated risks of complications. This is the case with all…
The Challenges of Monitoring Outcomes
The Challenges of Monitoring Outcomes Isabel Deisenhofer Over the last few years, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an established therapeutic approach that might have the potential to…
When and How to Re-Ablate
When and How to Re-Ablate Michael Riley David Callans Every electrophysiologist who performs successful ablations for atrial fibrillation (AF) also performs ablations that are unsuccessful, characterized by a recurrence of…
Postprocedural Care after Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Postprocedural Care after Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Alan Wimmer Hakan Oral A number of techniques have been successfully employed for radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) (1,…
Ablation Procedure Follow-up and Definitions of Success
Ablation Procedure Follow-up and Definitions of Success Christopher Piorkowski Gerd Hindricks Hans Kottkamp Curative treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the major challenges of today’s electrophysiology. The growing…
