Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: A Genetic Perspective
As a result of the genetic revolution, the impact of genetics must be considered in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of the patient populations of most specialty clinics. It is…
Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: A Growing Population
Congenital heart disease (CHD) lesions occur during embryonic development and consist of abnormal formations of the heart walls, valves, or blood vessels. The dramatic improvement in CHD diagnosis and continued…
Grown-Up Congenital Heart or Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Historical Perspectives
Jane Somerville I have witnessed this history and want to share it… Cardiology in the 1950s was just emerging as a specialty, strongly resisted by the professors of medicine in the…
Ventricular Arrhythmias in Inherited Channelopathies
Abstract The majority of sudden cardiac death (SCD) events are associated with structural heart disease; however, in 10% to 20% of SCDs, no cardiac structural abnormalities are detectable. The lack…
Ventricular Arrhythmias in Ischemic Heart Disease
Abstract Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of clinically documented ventricular tachycardia (VT). The majority of sustained monomorphic VTs in patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) are caused…
Bundle Branch Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia
Abstract Bundle branch reentrant (BBR) ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a macroreentrant VT with a well-defined reentry circuit, incorporating the right and left bundle branches as obligatory limbs of the circuit,…
Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Abstract Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is the most common form of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. The exact electroanatomic circuit responsible for AVNRT remains elusive. Current evidence suggests that dual atrioventricular…
Atrial Fibrillation
Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice. AF is a progressive disease and is independently associated with significantly increased morbidity and mortality. The…
Idiopathic Focal Ventricular Tachycardia
Abstract Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT) comprises 10% of all patients referred for evaluation of VT. Diagnostic features of idiopathic VT include (1) structurally normal heart and (2) QRS morphology consistent…
Complications of Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Abstract Reported rates of major complications following contemporary catheter ablation procedures vary by as much as five- to eightfold between various types of ablation procedures, ranging from 0.8% for supraventricular…
