Ventricular versus atrial side ablation for treatment of atrioventricular accessory pathways: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Background: The earliest atrial (A)/ventricular (V) activation potentials, or fused A/V potentials, are commonly used as ablation targets for atrioventricular (AV) accessory pathways (APs). However, these targets can be achieved in a relatively wide area of the heart around AV rings at both atrial and ventricular sides. The aim of this study is to analyze the height of intracardiac A and V waves and their correlation to find the most appropriate side for successful delivery of radiofrequency energy, atrial or ventricular edge.

Vitamin D status influences cytokine production and MALAT1 expression from the PBMCs of patients with coronary artery disease and healthy controls.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the long non-coding RNA metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (lncRNA MALAT1) expression and its role in cytokine production from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and non-CAD participants (NCAD).

Methods: Blood samples were taken from 15 patients with CAD and 15 NCAD individuals. The plasma was used for biochemical analyses.