Safety and efficacy of cryoablation vs. radiofrequency ablation of septal accessory pathways: systematic review of the literature and meta-analyses.

Aims: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of septal accessory pathways (APs) is associated with a significant rate of first procedure failures and complications. Cryoablation is an alternative energy source but there are no studies comparing both ablation techniques. We aimed to systematically review the literature and compare the efficacy and safety of cryoablation vs.

Differential Responses of the Septal Ventricle and the Atrial Signals During Ongoing Entrainment: A Method to Differentiate Orthodromic Reciprocating Tachycardia Using Septal Accessory Pathways From Atypical Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry.

Background: Differential diagnosis between tachycardia mediated by septal accessory pathways (AP) and atypical atrioventricular nodal reentry can be challenging. We hypothesized that an immediate versus delayed pace-related advancement of the atrial electrogram, once the local septal parahisian ventricular electrogram (SVE) has been advanced, may help in this diagnosis.

Methods And Results: We focused on differential timing between SVE and atrial signals at the initiation of continuous right ventricular apical pacing during tachycardia.

Safety of Outpatient Implantation of the Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator.

Introduction And Objectives: Strategies are needed to reduce health care costs and improve patient care. The objective of our study was to analyze the safety of outpatient implantation of cardioverter-defibrillators.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in 401 consecutive patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator between 2007 and 2012.

Safety, long-term results, and predictors of recurrence after complete endocardial ventricular tachycardia substrate ablation in patients with previous myocardial infarction.

Conduction channels and electrograms with isolated component/late potentials are sensitive markers of the substrate of post-myocardial infarction sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT). Ablation of all conduction channels and isolated component/late potentials (complete endocardial VT substrate ablation [CEVTSA]) during sinus rhythm could simplify and facilitate the ablation procedure, mainly in patients without references for clinical VT substrate identification. The aim of this study was to assess the safety, efficacy, and predictors of VT recurrence after CEVTSA.

Refining the indications of implantable cardioverter defibrillator in patients with left ventricular dysfunction.

Although clinical trials evaluating therapy with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) have had clear limitations, there are few interventions in which multiple trial settings over a long period have consistently produced a 20% to 30% reduction in total mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Substantial differences between the Guidelines on ICD implantation have resulted and the number of patients actually implanted following these recommendations remains relatively low. As well as this, different reasons have been proposed to explain why randomized trials of ICD versus control subjects implanted early after myocardial infarction do not show survival benefit.