Lead integrity alert algorithm decreases inappropriate shocks in patients who have Sprint Fidelis pace-sense conductor fractures , 21 May 2010
Linda M. Kallinen, Robert G. Hauser, Chuen Tang, Daniel P. Melby, Adrian K. Almquist, William T. Katsiyiannis, Charles C. Gornick
Heart Rhythm
August 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 8, Pages 1048-1055)
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Gender differences in clinical outcome and primary prevention defibrillator benefit in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction: A systematic review and meta-analysis , 08 April 2010
Pasquale Santangeli, Gemma Pelargonio, Antonio Dello Russo, Michela Casella, Caterina Bisceglia, Stefano Bartoletti, Pietro Santarelli, Luigi Di Biase, Andrea Natale
Heart Rhythm
July 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 7, Pages 876-882)
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Outcomes of long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation ablation: A systematic review , 25 January 2010
Anthony G. Brooks, Martin K. Stiles, Julien Laborderie, Dennis H. Lau, Pawel Kuklik, Nicholas J. Shipp, Li-Fern Hsu, Prashanthan Sanders
Heart Rhythm
June 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 6, Pages 835-846)
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Vagal tone augmentation to the atrioventricular node in humans: Efficacy and safety of burst endocardial stimulation , 01 February 2010
Pietro Rossi, Stefano Bianchi, Giancarlo Monari, Alberto Della Scala, Daniele Porcelli, Sergio Valsecchi, Sergio Canonaco, Lilian Kornet, Paolo Azzolini
Heart Rhythm
May 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 5, Pages 683-689)
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Atrial fibrillation is independently associated with senile, vascular, and Alzheimer's dementia , 09 December 2009
T. Jared Bunch, J. Peter Weiss, Brian G. Crandall, Heidi T. May, Tami L. Bair, Jeffrey S. Osborn, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Benjamin D. Horne, Donald L. Lappe, John D. Day
Heart Rhythm
April 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 4, Pages 433-437)
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P wave and the development of atrial fibrillation , 13 November 2009
Katsuya Ishida, Hideki Hayashi, Akashi Miyamoto, Yoshihisa Sugimoto, Makoto Ito, Yoshitaka Murakami, Minoru Horie
Heart Rhythm
March 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 3, Pages 289-294)
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Mechanism of right precordial ST-segment elevation in structural heart disease: Excitation failure by current-to-load mismatch , 12 October 2009
Mark G. Hoogendijk, Mark Potse, André C. Linnenbank, Arie O. Verkerk, Hester M. den Ruijter, Shirley C.M. van Amersfoorth, Eva C. Klaver, Leander Beekman, Connie R. Bezzina, Pieter G. Postema, Hanno L. Tan, Annette G. Reimer, Allard C. van der Wal, Arend D.J. ten Harkel, Michiel Dalinghaus, Alain Vinet, Arthur A.M. Wilde, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, Ruben Coronel
Heart Rhythm
February 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 2, Pages 238-248)
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RR-interval irregularity precedes ventricular fibrillation in ST elevation acute myocardial infarction , 22 September 2009
Miguel E. Lemmert, Mohamed Majidi, Mitchell W. Krucoff, Sebastiaan C.A.M. Bekkers, Harry J.G.M. Crijns, Hein J.J. Wellens, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Anton P.M. Gorgels
Heart Rhythm
January 2010 (Vol. 7, Issue 1, Pages 65-71)
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Longevity of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, influencing factors, and comparison to industry-projected longevity , 14 September 2009
Beat Andreas Schaer, Michael Theodor Koller, Christian Sticherling, David Altmann, Lucas Joerg, Stefan Osswald
Heart Rhythm
December 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 12, Pages 1737-1743)
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Impact of radiofrequency ablation of frequent post-infarction premature ventricular complexes on left ventricular ejection fraction , 06 August 2009
Jean-Francois Sarrazin, Troy Labounty, Michael Kuhne, Thomas Crawford, William F. Armstrong, Benoit Desjardins, Eric Good, Krit Jongnarangsin, Aman Chugh, Hakan Oral, Frank Pelosi, Fred Morady, Frank Bogun
Heart Rhythm
November 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 11, Pages 1543-1549)
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Impact of type of atrial fibrillation and repeat catheter ablation on long-term freedom from atrial fibrillation: Results from a multicenter study , 10 June 2009
Mandeep Bhargava, Luigi Di Biase, Prasant Mohanty, Subramanyam Prasad, David O. Martin, Michelle Williams-Andrews, Oussama M. Wazni, J. David Burkhardt, Jennifer E. Cummings, Yaariv Khaykin, Atul Verma, Steven Hao, Salwa Beheiry, Richard Hongo, Antonio Rossillo, Antonio Raviele, Aldo Bonso, Sakis Themistoclakis, Kelly Stewart, Walid I. Saliba, Robert A. Schweikert, Andrea Natale
Heart Rhythm
October 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 10, Pages 1403-1412)
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Drugs and Brugada syndrome patients: Review of the literature, recommendations, and an up-to-date website (www.brugadadrugs.org) , 10 July 2009
Pieter G. Postema, Christian Wolpert, Ahmad S. Amin, Vincent Probst, Martin Borggrefe, Dan M. Roden, Silvia G. Priori, Hanno L. Tan, Masayasu Hiraoka, Josep Brugada, Arthur A.M. Wilde
Heart Rhythm
September 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 9, Pages 1335-1341)
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Predictive value of electrocardiographic QT interval and T-wave morphology parameters for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a general population sample , 12 May 2009
Kimmo Porthan, Matti Viitasalo, Antti Jula, Antti Reunanen, Janne Rapola, Heikki Väänänen, Markku S. Nieminen, Lauri Toivonen, Veikko Salomaa, Lasse Oikarinen
Heart Rhythm
August 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 8, Pages 1202-1208.e1)
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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation: Results from the North American Multidisciplinary Study , 12 March 2009
Frank I. Marcus, Wojciech Zareba, Hugh Calkins, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Cristina Basso, David A. Bluemke, N.A. Mark Estes, Michael H. Picard, Danita Sanborn, Gaetano Thiene, Thomas Wichter, David Cannom, David J. Wilber, Melvin Scheinman, Henry Duff, James Daubert, Mario Talajic, Andrew Krahn, Michael Sweeney, Hasan Garan, Scott Sakaguchi, Bruce B. Lerman, Charles Kerr, Jack Kron, Jonathan S. Steinberg, Duane Sherrill, Kathleen Gear, Mary Brown, Patricia Severski, Slava Polonsky, Scott McNitt
Heart Rhythm
July 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 7, Pages 984-992)
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Left cardiac sympathetic denervation for the treatment of long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia using video-assisted thoracic surgery , 20 March 2009
Christopher A. Collura, Jonathan N. Johnson, Christopher Moir, Michael J. Ackerman
Heart Rhythm
June 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 6, Pages 752-759)
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Arrhythmogenicity of weight-loss supplements marketed on the Internet , 17 February 2009
Alireza Nazeri, Ali Massumi, James M. Wilson, Christopher M. Frank, Michael Bensler, Jie Cheng, Mohammad Saeed, Abdi Rasekh, Mehdi Razavi
Heart Rhythm
May 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 5, Pages 658-662)
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Utilization of a national network for rapid response to the Medtronic Fidelis lead advisory: The Canadian Heart Rhythm Society Device Advisory Committee , 19 January 2009
Andrew D. Krahn, Christopher S. Simpson, Ratika Parkash, Raymond Yee, Jean Champagne, Jeffrey S. Healey, Doug Cameron, Bernard Thibault, Iqwal Mangat, Stanley Tung, Laurence Sterns, David H. Birnie, Derek V. Exner, Soori Sivakumaran, Ted Davies, Benoit Coutu, Eugene Crystal, Kevin Wolfe, Atul Verma, Elizabeth A. Stephenson, Shubhayan Sanatani, Robert Gow, Sean Connors, Felix Ayala Paredes, Michael Turabian, Teresa Kus, Martin Gardner, Vidal Essebag
Heart Rhythm
April 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 4, Pages 474-477)
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Ethnic and racial disparities in cardiac resynchronization therapy , 15 December 2008
Steven A. Farmer, James N. Kirkpatrick, Paul A. Heidenreich, Jeptha P. Curtis, Yongfei Wang, Peter W. Groeneveld
Heart Rhythm
March 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 3, Pages 325-331)
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Nerve Supply of the Human Pulmonary Veins: An Anatomical Study , 24 October 2008
Raimundas Vaitkevicius, Inga Saburkina, Kristina Rysevaite, Inga Vaitkeviciene, Neringa Pauziene, Remigijus Zaliunas, Patrick Schauerte, José Jalife, Dainius H. Pauza
Heart Rhythm
February 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 2, Pages 221-228)
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Relationship between the spectral characteristics of atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardias that occur after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation , 02 October 2008
Kentaro Yoshida, Aman Chugh, Magnus Ulfarsson, Eric Good, Michael Kuhne, Thomas Crawford, Jean F. Sarrazin, Nagib Chalfoun, Darryl Wells, Warangkna Boonyapisit, Srikar Veerareddy, Sreedhar Billakanty, Wai S. Wong, Krit Jongnarangsin, Frank Pelosi, Frank Bogun, Fred Morady, Hakan Oral
Heart Rhythm
January 2009 (Vol. 6, Issue 1, Pages 11-17)
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Pulmonary vein isolation by duty-cycled bipolar and unipolar radiofrequency energy with a multielectrode ablation catheter , 05 September 2008
Lucas V.A. Boersma, Maurits C.E.F. Wijffels, Hakan Oral, Eric F.D. Wever, Fred Morady
Heart Rhythm
December 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 12, Pages 1635-1642)
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Atrial fibrillation progression and management: A 5-year prospective follow-up study , 19 August 2008
Carlo Pappone, Andrea Radinovic, Francesco Manguso, Gabriele Vicedomini, Giuseppe Ciconte, Stefania Sacchi, Patrizio Mazzone, Gabriele Paglino, Simone Gulletta, Simone Sala, Vincenzo Santinelli
Heart Rhythm
November 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 11, Pages 1501-1507)
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Epidemiology and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation in the United States , 21 July 2008
Alexander M. Walker, Dimitri Bennett
Heart Rhythm
October 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 10, Pages 1365-1372)
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Endothelial dysfunction in heart failure identifies responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy , 03 June 2008
Joseph G. Akar, M. Obadah Al-Chekakie, Tyler Fugate, Lynn Moran, Borislav Froloshki, Niraj Varma, Peter Santucci, David J. Wilber, Martin E. Matsumura
Heart Rhythm
September 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 9, Pages 1229-1235)
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Heart rate turbulence predicts all-cause mortality and sudden death in congestive heart failure patients , 06 May 2008
Iwona Cygankiewicz, Wojciech Zareba, Rafael Vazquez, Montserrat Vallverdu, Jose R. Gonzalez-Juanatey, Mariano Valdes, Jesus Almendral, Juan Cinca, Pere Caminal, Antoni Bayes de Luna, MUSIC Investigators
Heart Rhythm
August 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 8, Pages 1095-1102)
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Identification and distribution of interstitial Cajal cells in human pulmonary veins , 02 April 2008
Elodie Morel, David Meyronet, Françoise Thivolet-Bejuy, Philippe Chevalier
Heart Rhythm
July 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 7, Pages 1063-1067)
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Survival trends in the United States following exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest in the youth: 2000–2006 , 10 March 2008
Jonathan A. Drezner, Jordan S.D.Y. Chun, Kimberly G. Harmon, Linette Derminer
Heart Rhythm
June 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 6, Pages 794-799)
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Cardiac fibrillation: From ion channels to rotors in the human heart , 11 April 2008
Miguel Vaquero, David Calvo, José Jalife
Heart Rhythm
June 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 6, Pages 872-879)
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Outcome of the Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead advisory: A report from the Canadian Heart Rhythm Society Device Advisory Committee , 31 January 2008
Andrew D. Krahn, Jean Champagne, Jeffrey S. Healey, Doug Cameron, Christopher S. Simpson, Bernard Thibault, Iqwal Mangat, Stanley Tung, Laurence Sterns, David H. Birnie, Derek V. Exner, Ratika Parkash, Soori Sivakumaran, Ted Davies, Benoit Coutu, Eugene Crystal, Kevin Wolfe, Atul Verma, Elizabeth A. Stephenson, Shubhayan Sanatani, Robert Gow, Sean Connors, Felix Ayala Paredes, Vidal Essebag
Heart Rhythm
May 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 5, Pages 639-642)
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Association between statin use and mortality in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and left ventricular systolic dysfunction , 03 January 2008
Craig I. Coleman, Jeffrey Kluger, Sanjeev Bhavnani, Christopher Clyne, Ravi Yarlagadda, Danette Guertin, C. Michael White
Heart Rhythm
April 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 4, Pages 507-510)
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Gain of function in IKs secondary to a mutation in KCNE5 associated with atrial fibrillation , 03 January 2008
Lasse S. Ravn, Yoshiyasu Aizawa, Guido D. Pollevick, Jacob Hofman-Bang, Jonathan M. Cordeiro, Ulrik Dixen, Gorm Jensen, Yuesheng Wu, Elena Burashnikov, Stig Haunso, Alejandra Guerchicoff, Dan Hu, Jesper H. Svendsen, Michael Christiansen, Charles Antzelevitch
Heart Rhythm
March 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 3, Pages 427-435)
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Electromechanical coupling in patients with the short QT syndrome: Further insights into the mechanoelectrical hypothesis of the U wave , 11 October 2007
Rainer Schimpf, Charles Antzelevitch, Dariush Haghi, Carla Giustetto, Alfredo Pizzuti, Fiorenzo Gaita, Christian Veltmann, Christian Wolpert, Martin Borggrefe
Heart Rhythm
February 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 2, Pages 241-245)
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Spontaneous stellate ganglion nerve activity and ventricular arrhythmia in a canine model of sudden death , 18 September 2007
Shengmei Zhou, Byung-Chun Jung, Alex Y. Tan, Vinh Quang Trang, Ghassan Gholmieh, Seong-Wook Han, Shien-Fong Lin, Michael C. Fishbein, Peng-Sheng Chen, Lan S. Chen
Heart Rhythm
January 2008 (Vol. 5, Issue 1, Pages 131-139)
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