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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jiaqi Sun, Sanbao Chen, Ming Liang, Qi Zhang, Ping Zhang, Mingyu Sun, Jian Ding, Zhiqing Jin, Yaling Han, Zulu Wang
Summary: The study suggests that Bachmann's bundle modification in addition to circumferential pulmonary vein isolation is an effective approach to increase the maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, while it does not significantly improve the clinical outcomes of radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
(2023)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Julian Mueller, Karin Nentwich, Artur Berkovitz, Kai Sonne, Olena Kozlova, Sebastian Barth, Alexandru Deacanu, Christian Waechter, Philipp Halbfass, Heiko Lehrmann, Thomas Deneke
Summary: This study investigated the characteristics of patients undergoing redo AF ablation and the impact of different ablation strategies. The results showed that pulmonary vein reconnection was common among all techniques of AF ablation, and different ablation strategies did not improve long-term success.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Timm Seewoester, Kaloyan Marinov, Susanne Loebe, Helge Knopp, Sotirios Nedios, Andreas Bollmann, Gerhard Hindricks, Borislav Dinov
Summary: The study found that more pronounced left atrial asynchrony and abnormal activation pattern were associated with new-onset atrial fibrillation.
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Giuseppe De Martino, Paolo Compagnucci, Carmine Mancusi, Enrico Vassallo, Claudia Calvanese, Giuseppe Della Ratta, Mariateresa Librera, Marco Franciulli, Luigi Marino, Antonio Dello Russo, Michela Casella
Summary: The study assessed the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of a single-stage stepwise endo/epicardial approach in patients with persistent/longstanding-persistent AF, demonstrating favorable outcomes in terms of sinus rhythm restoration and symptom improvement.
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Yun Young Choi, Jaemin Shim, Yun Gi Kim, Kyongjin Min, Seung-Young Roh, Jin Seok Kim, Jong-Il Choi, Young-Hoon Kim
Summary: Adenosine-induced atrial fibrillation (AIAF) does not affect the long-term recurrence rate after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Additional ablation for the trigger site of AIAF does not improve clinical outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sebastian Weyand, Viola Adam, Matthias Beuter, Simon Hanger, David Heinzmann, Willibald Schrezenmeier, Peter Seizer
Summary: For patients undergoing radiofrequency pulmonary vein isolation, the necessity of pulmonary vein angiography was investigated after the use of high-resolution mapping catheters and high-power, short-duration ablation technique. The study found that omitting pulmonary vein angiography had no significant impact on the efficacy, efficiency, and complications of the ablation procedure. Therefore, avoiding pulmonary vein angiography may be useful, especially for young patients and those with chronic renal disease, when using this protocol.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Physiology
Lisa A. A. Gottlieb, Lukas R. C. Dekker, Ruben Coronel
Summary: Atrial fibrillation (AF) often requires invasive treatment in the form of ablation, but incomplete ablation of the pulmonary veins (PV) can still cure AF in some patients. This suggests that an antiarrhythmic effect other than electrical isolation plays a role in preventing AF. We propose that modifying the arrhythmogenic substrate in the PV can be a new therapeutic approach for a subgroup of patients with PV reentry.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Nandor Szegedi, Judit Simon, Balint Szilveszter, Zoltan Sallo, Szilvia Herczeg, Lili Szaraz, Marton Kolossvary, Gabor Orban, Gabor Szeplaki, Klaudia Vivien Nagy, Mohammed El Mahdiui, Jeff M. Smit, Victoria Delgado, Jeroen J. Bax, Pal Maurovich-Horvat, Bela Merkely, Laszlo Geller
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of the spatial relationship between LSPV and LAA on recurrence after catheter ablation for paroxysmal AF. The study found that an abutting LAA-LSPV was associated with a higher chance of AF recurrence.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Takayuki Ogawa, Seigo Yamashita, Hirotsuna Oseto, Masaaki Yokoyama, Ryosuke Itakura, Ryeonshi Kang, Kenichi Tokutake, Takatoku Aizawa, Yasunori Inoue, Satoshi Morimoto, Kazuo Ogawa, Tomohisa Nagoshi, Makoto Kawai, Teiichi Yamane, Michihiro Yoshimura
Summary: This study retrospectively analyzed the clinical characteristics, treatment strategies, and long-term outcomes of 7 patients with PV stenosis after AF ablation. The results showed that stenting had better long-term PV patency compared to balloon angioplasty alone, suggesting that it should be considered as the first-line approach.
CIRCULATION JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Lara Wagner, Fabrice F. Darche, Dierk Thomas, Patrick Lugenbiel, Panagiotis Xynogalos, Svenja Seide, Eberhard P. Scholz, Hugo A. Katus, Patrick A. Schweizer
Summary: Background modulation of the cardiac autonomic nervous system by pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) influences the sinoatrial nodal rate. Cryo-PVI causes a significant rise of sinus rate that is more pronounced in subjects with previous sinus bradycardia, with an increased risk of AF recurrence in patients with postprocedural bradycardia.
CLINICAL RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Hubert Cochet, Yosuke Nakatani, Soumaya Sridi-Cheniti, Ghassen Cheniti, F. Daniel Ramirez, Takashi Nakashima, Charles Eggert, Christopher Schneider, Raju Viswanathan, Nicolas Derval, Josselin Duchateau, Thomas Pambrun, Remi Chauvel, Vivek Y. Reddy, Michel Montaudon, Francois Laurent, Frederic Sacher, Meleze Hocini, Michel Haissaguerre, Pierre Jais
Summary: In this study, extra-atrial injuries after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) using pulsed field ablation (PFA) and thermal ablation methods were compared in 41 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). It was found that PFA did not induce any signs of esophageal injury on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging after PVI, indicating a potential improvement in safety for catheter ablation of AF.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kazuo Sakamoto, Yasushi Mukai, Shunsuke Kawai, Kazuhiro Nagaoka, Shujiro Inoue, Susumu Takase, Daisuke Yakabe, Shota Ikeda, Hiroshi Mannoji, Tomomi Nagayama, Akiko Chishaki, Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Summary: This study aimed to develop a simple method to localize the origin of non-pulmonary vein triggers and promote the standardization of their ablation. By analyzing intra-atrial activation sequences, the study found this to be a helpful method in differentiating non-pulmonary vein trigger areas.
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Xin Xie, Gang Yang, Xiaorong Li, Jinbo Yu, Fengxiang Zhang, Weizhu Ju, Hongwu Chen, Mingfang Li, Kai Gu, Dian Cheng, Xuecheng Wang, Yizhang Wu, Jian Zhou, Xiaoqian Zhou, Baowei Zhang, Pipin Kojodjojo, Kejiang Cao, Bing Yang, Minglong Chen
Summary: A retrospective study revealed that additional ablations were common in PAF patients, with lower LVEF and AF episodes before, during, and induced after PVI serving as independent predictors of additional ablation. Patients with PAF who underwent index procedures showed a single-procedure free rate from atrial arrhythmias at 70.48% after 58.36 +/- 7.12 months.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2021)
Letter
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Joongmin Kim, Daehoon Kim, Hee Tae Yu, Tae-Hoon Kim, Boyoung Joung, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Hui-Nam Pak
Summary: This study evaluated the incidence of pulmonary vein stenosis after atrial fibrillation catheter ablation using computed tomography images. The results showed that high-power short-duration ablation may increase the risk of pulmonary vein stenosis.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Philippe Taghji, Jean-Claude Deharo, Sana Amraoui, Sok-Sithikun Bun
Summary: This study evaluated the efficacy of CLOSE-guided pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). The results showed that CLOSE-guided PVI achieved a high single-procedure arrhythmia-free survival rate of 80% at 1 year under intensive cardiac rhythm monitoring. However, larger-scale studies are still needed to further confirm these findings.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Surgery
Mohammad Ali Tavallaei, Daniel Gelman, Michael Konstantine Lavdas, Allan C. Skanes, Douglas L. Jones, Jeffrey S. Bax, Maria Drangova
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY
(2016)
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Neurosciences
John Ciriello, Jason M. Moreau, Aaron M. McCoy, Douglas L. Jones
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2015)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roozbeh Aschar-Sobbi, Farzad Izaddoustdar, Adam S. Korogyi, Qiongling Wang, Gerrie P. Farman, FengHua Yang, Wallace Yang, David Dorian, Jeremy A. Simpson, Jari M. Tuomi, Douglas L. Jones, Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, Brian Cox, Xander H. T. Wehrens, Paul Dorian, Peter H. Backx
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2015)
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Neurosciences
John Ciriello, Jason M. Moreau, Aaron McCoy, Douglas L. Jones
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2016)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Sara L. Bober, John Ciriello, Douglas L. Jones
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jari M. Tuomi, Anargyros Xenocostas, Douglas L. Jones
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2018)
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Acoustics
Long N. Le, Douglas L. Jones
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2018)
Editorial Material
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Gerard M. Guiraudon, Douglas L. Jones
JOURNAL OF INTERVENTIONAL CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
(2014)
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Respiratory System
Shuai Li, Jian Ma, Jing-Bo Li, James C. Lacefield, Douglas L. Jones, Tian-Qing Peng, Meng Wei
JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE
(2018)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Daniel Gelman, Allan C. Skanes, Douglas L. Jones, Michael Timofeyev, Tal Bar-on, Maria Drangova
JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
(2019)
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Cell Biology
Tana Saiyin, Anish Engineer, Elizabeth R. Greco, Mella Y. Kim, Xiangru Lu, Douglas L. Jones, Qingping Feng
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
(2019)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Liwen Liang, Huili Li, Ting Cao, Lina Qu, Lulu Zhang, Guo-Chang Fan, Peter A. Greer, Jianmin Li, Douglas L. Jones, Tianqing Peng
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
(2020)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jari M. Tuomi, Loryn J. Bohne, Tristan W. Dorey, Hailey J. Jansen, Yingjie Liu, Douglas L. Jones, Robert A. Rose
Summary: The study showed that ibrutinib and acalabrutinib have distinct effects on atrial electrophysiology and ion channel function. Ibrutinib increased atrial fibrillation susceptibility and impaired sinus node function, while acalabrutinib had no such effects.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Robin J. Krishnan, Lavanya Uruthiramoorthy, Noor Jawaid, Margaret Steele, Douglas L. Jones
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL MEDICINE
(2018)
Meeting Abstract
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Douglas L. Jones, Sara Bober, John Ciriello