Poster Session 1-1: Mechanisms and genetics of
cardiac arrhythmias
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IMPAIRED
IMPULSE PROPAGATION IN SENESCENT HETEROZYGOUS SCN5A KNOCKOUT MICE: SYNERGISM
OF EXCITABILITY, CONNEXIN EXPRESSION AND TISSUE ARCHITECTURE Mera
Stein, Toon van Veen, Flavien Carpentier, Andrew Grace,
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ATRIAL
ELECTROANATOMIC REMODELING: THE RELATION BETWEEN ATRIAL DILATATION AND
INTERATRIAL DYNAMIC DECREMENTAL CONDUCTION Dragos
Cozma, Sorin Pescariu, Lucian Petrescu, T Constantin Luca, Dan Gaita, Stefan
Iosif Dragulescu (Timisoara, RO) |
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EFFECT OF
AUTONOMIC BLOCKADE ON QT DYNAMICS IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS. Berit T. Jensen, Erik Agner,
Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou, Jørgen K. Kanters (Copenhagen, DK) |
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DISPERSION
OF ATRIAL REFRACTORINESS IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION.
DOES IT CONTRIBUTES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION? Mario
Oliveira, Nogueira da Silva, Joana Feliciano, Ana Timóteo, Fernando Marques,
Sofia Santos, Luis Silva Carvalho, Jorge Quininha (Lisbon, PT) |
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EFFECT OF
TERFENADINE ON HETEROGENEITY OF VENTRICULAR REPOLARISATION Velislav Batchvarov, Sue Brown, Katerina Hnatkova, A
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VENTRICULAR
GRADIENT ALTERATIONS DURING POSTURAL CHANGES IN POST-MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
PATIENTS George
Giannopoulos, Polychronis Dilaveris, Dr. Velislav Batchvarov, Andreas
Synetos, Katerina Hnatkova, |
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DEFIBRILLATION
FAILURE DUE TO PERSISTENT AUTOMATICITY Moshe
Swissa, Hideki Hayashi, Peng-Sheng Chen ( |
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NEURALLY
INDUCED ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIAS Réginald
Nadeau, Teresa Kus, Louis-Philippe Richer, Alain Vinet, Pierre Pagé, Michel
Vermeulen, René Cardinal, J.Andrew Armour, Yin Yalin (Montréal, Québec,
CA) |
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MECHANISM
AND PROGNOSIS OF WIDE QRS COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC
DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY AND WITH ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS Béatrice
Brembilla-Perrot, Olivier Marçon, Frédéric Chometon, Olivier Claudon,
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SIGNIFICANCE
OF DUAL TACHYCARDIAS IN PATIENTS WITH HISTORY OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. Béatrice
Brembilla-Perrot, Olivier Marçon, Hugues Blangy, Nicolas Sadoul,
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CHANGES IN
CONNEXIN43 IMMUNOLABELLING ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN CONNEXIN45 OR CONNEXIN40
LABELLING IN THE CANINE INFARCT BORDER ZONE Rasheda A Chowdhury, Riyaz A Kaba, Pravina M Patel,
Hetal N Patel, Emmanuel Dupont, Nicholas J Severs, Andrew L Wit,
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MURINE
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CAUSES REMODELLING OF CONNEXIN43 IN THE PERI-INFARCT
ZONE Rasheda A Chowdhury, Daniel Cervantes, Riyaz A Kaba,
Wajid Hussain, Pravina M Patel, Yasmina Aguiar-Martins, Andrew L Wit,
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BRUGADA
SYNDROME DISCLOSED BY A MALARIA ATTACK. A REPORT OF 3 OBSERVATIONS. Philippe
Heno, Louis Braem, |
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ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL
CONSEQUENCES OF MURINE POST-MI REMODELING Yuri
Goldberg, Ilya Fleidervish, Eugene Crystal, Inna Gitelman, Eli Zalzstein,
Nily Zucker, I.Eli Ovsyshcher ( |
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FOUR NOVEL
SCN5A MUTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME Marketa
Bebarova, Roselie Jongbloed, Jan Geelen, Carl Timmermans, Yvonne Arens, Paul
G.A. Volders, Luz-Maria Rodriguez (Maastricht, NL) |
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A STUDY OF
VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC
VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA Gilad Senderovich,
Solange Akselrod, Linda Davrath, Assad Khoury, Avraham Lorber, Michael Eldar (Tel
Aviv, IL) |
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IMPACT OF
AUTONOMIC BLOCKADE ON QT DYNAMICS IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN. Berit T. Jensen, Erik Agner,
Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou, Jørgen K. Kanters (Copenhagen, DK) |
Poster Session 1-2: Conduction disturbances and
sick sinus syndrome
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VENTRICULAR
RATE CONTROL IN PATIENTS PACED FOR BRADY-TACHY FORM OF SICK SINUS SYNDROME. Renato Ricci, Luigi Padeletti,
Giuseppe Boriani, Michele Gulizia, Luzzi Gianni, Giacomo Chiarandà, Francesco
Solimene, Stefano Favale, |
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UNCOMMON
ETIOLOGY FOR HEART BLOCK IN ADULTS Malka
Yahalom, Nathan Roguin, Svetlana Lisicsin, Moshe Shay, Jacqueline Jerushalmi,
Jabour Khoury, Hector Cohen (Nahariya, IL) |
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THE VALUE
OF ADENOSINE TEST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION Artur
Pietrucha, Wieslawa Piwowarska ( |
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EVALUATION
OF DUAL-CHAMBER AND SINGLE-CHAMBER PACING OUTCOMES IN AV CONDUCTION
DISTURBANCES PATIENTS
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QUALITY OF
LIFE IN AV CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE PATIENTS AFTER PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION
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INDEPENDENT
PROGNOSTIC ROLE OF LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK FOR SUDDEN DEATH IN PATIENTS WITH
IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY RECEIVING BETA-BLOCKERS Aneta Aleksova, Daniela
Chicco, Alberto Pivetta, Marco Merlo, Andrea Di Lenarda, Gianfranco Sinagra (Trieste,
IT) |
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COMPARISON
BETWEEN TWO DIFERENT INDEXES OF MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPHATY Eduardo Arana, Jaime Nevado,
Alonso Pedrote, Nieves Romero, Ana Manovel, Francisco Errazquin (Sevilla,
ES) |
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LEFT
BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK AND GLOBAL CARDIAC FUNCTION. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
ELECTROMECANIC VENTRICULAR DISTURBANCE. Jaime
Nevado, Nieves Romero, Dr. Eduardo Arana, Alonso Pedrote, Francisco Lopez
Pardo, Ana Manovel, Lorena Garcia Riesco, Francisco Errazquin (Sevilla,
ES) |
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FRAGMENTED
QRS PREDICTS CARDIAC EVENTS AND MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH NARROW QRS ON 12
LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM Hicham El
Masry, Mithilesh Das ( |
Poster Session 1-3: Diagnostic tools and risk
stratification
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COST
COMPARISON OF SEVERAL TECHNIQUES OF ATRIAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC STUDIES Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot (Vandoeuvre les Nancy, FR) |
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ECG
CHANGES AMONGST PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES AND DELIRIUM TREMENS Florim
Cuculi, Richard Kobza, Paul Erne ( |
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ECG
PATTERN OF T WAVE ALTERNANS IN POST AMI PATIENTS WITHOUT LEFT VENTRICULAR
SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION Nicolae
Radoi, Dan Lighezan, Gheorghe Dan, Stefan Dragulescu ( |
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T WAVE
ALTERNANS RESPONSE TO CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS SUGGEST THAT REPOLARISATION
ALTERNANS CAN HAVE DIFFERENT CELLULAR MECHANISMS |
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QT
DISPERSION AS AN INDICATOR OF SUCCESSFUL THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY IN THE SETTING
OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND ITS CORRELATION TO EARLY ARRHYTHMIC
COMPLICATIONS Salah
Atta, Lobna El-Tony, Salwa R. |
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ROLE OF
HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN PREDICTING OF TYPICAL ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL
RECIPROCATING TACHYCARDIA RECURRENCE IN POSTABLATIVE PATIENTS
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QT
DYNAMICS AND TOTAL MORTALITY AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION WITH UP TO 7 YEARS
FOLLOW-UP. Berit T
Jensen, Steen Z. Abildstrom, Charlotte E. Larroude, Jørgen K. Kanters ( |
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HOLTER
PARAMETERS AND TOTAL MORTALITY IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND CHRONIC HEART
FAILURE Charlotte
Ellen Larroude, Berit T Jensen, Egon Toft, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Kristian
Wachtell, Erik Agner, Jørgen K Kanters (Elsinore, DK) |
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HOLTER
PARAMETERS AND TOTAL MORTALITY IN HEART FAILURE Charlotte
Ellen Larroude, Berit T Jensen, Egon Toft, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Kristian
Wachtell, Erik Agner, Jørgen K Kanters (Elsinore, DK) |
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ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION: PREDECTIVE IMPORTANCE
OF CLINICAL, ANGIOGRAPHIC FEATURES AND P WAVE DISPERSION
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THE
INTRACARDIAC FARFIELD ELECTROGRAM OF ICDS AS A POTENTIALLY NEW HOME
MONITORING TOOL: COMPARISON WITH SURFACE ECG, REPRODUCIBILITY AND INFLUENCE OF
EXERCISE AND AUTONOMIC MANEUVERS Sascha
Rolf, Holger Langreck, Martin Stockburger, Sabine Wurtz, Ingo Weiss,
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MORPHOLOGICAL
EVALUATION OF VENTRICULAR REPOLARISATION: ASSOCIATION
WITH MYOCARDIAL DAMAGE AND ARRHYTHMIC SUBSTRATE Yi Gang, Katerina Hnatkova, Takuya Ono,
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DIURNAL
VARIATIONS IN THE VENTRICULAR GRADIENT DURING THE ACUTE
PHASE OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION George
Giannopoulos, Polychronis Dilaveris, Dr. Velislav Batchvarov, Andreas
Synetos, Katerina Hnatkova, |
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ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
ANALISYS IN RIGHT VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAS IN PATIENTS WITHOUT APPARENT
STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE Eduardo Arana, Alonso Pedrote,
Nieves Romero, Ana Manovel, Carlos Gomez, Raul Lopez Aguilar, Lorena Garcia
Riesco, Francisco Errazquin (Sevilla, ES) |
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VENTRICULAR
FIBRILLATION AS A "WARM UP" PHENOMENON WHILE OF RADIOFREQUENCY
CATHETER ABLATION OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT PREMATURE BEATS
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FREQUENT
PREMATURE VENTRICULAR COMPLEXES FROM RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT IS
ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION Yumiko
Kanei, Meir Friedman, Naomi Ogawa, Sam Hannon, Patrick Lam, Paul Schweitzer (
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RISK
FACTORS OF VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING Marco
Budeus, Peter Feindt, Emmeran Gams, Heinrich Wieneke, Raimund Erbel Stefan
Sack ( |
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RESULTS OF
A CLINICAL PROTOCOL DEFINED TO IDENTIFY AND TO FOLLOW UP SUBJECTS SUSPECTED
OF ACUTE MYOCARDITIS, WHILE PRACTICING SPORTIVE ACTIVITY. Elvira Moccia, Franco
Naccarella, Cristina Felicani, Domenico Vasapollo, Giovannina Lepera, Massimo
Jasonni, Domenico Affinito, Andrea Masotti, Giuseppe Poletti (Bologna, IT) |
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FURTHER
EVIDENCE OF THE PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COVED TYPE AND EXTENT OF
FAMILY DISTRIBUTION OF SD OR CA IN BRUGADA SYNDROME PATIENTS Franco Naccarella, Cristina
Felicani, Domenico Affinito, Elvira Moccia, Domenico Vasapollo, Andrea
Masotti, Domenico Corrado (Bologna, IT) |
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CARDIAC
VULNERABILITY TO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION DURING ELECTRICAL STUN GUN
(TASER"¥) APPLICATION: EFFECT OF COCAINE INTOXICATION Dhanunjaya
Lakkireddy, Donald Wallick, William Kowalewski, Patel Dimpi, Subramanya
Prasad, Mina Chung, Jagdish Butany, Andrea Natale, Patrick Tchou (Cleveland,
US) |
Poster Session 2-1: Pharmacological and cellular
therapy
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EFFICACY
AND SAFETY OF BEPRIDIL FOR PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Yuji
Nakazato, Masayuki Yasuda, Hiroto Tsuchiya, Akitoshi Sasaki, Takashi Tokano,
Hiroyuki Daida (Tokyo, JP) |
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CLINICAL
USEFULNESS OF BEPRIDIL IN THE TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FLUTTER Yuji
Nakazato, Masayuki Yasuda, HIroto Tsuchiya, Akitoshi Sasaki, Takashi Tokano,
Hiroyuki Daida (Tokyo, JP) |
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ANTIOXIDATIVE
AND ANTIARRHYTMICAL EFFECTS OF A NEW METABOLIC DRUG ELTACIN AND ITS USE IN
COMBINED THERAPY WITH TRIMETAZIDINE Elena
Kalinina, Irina Komissarova, Rina Zaslavskaya, |
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RANOLAZINE
REDUCES SPATIAL DISPERSION OF MONOPHASIC ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION AND SUPPRESSES
VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS INDUCED BY E- Lin Wu,
John Shryock, Luiz Belardinelli ( |
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COMPARISON
OF EFFICIENCY OF NEW CLASS III ANTIARRHYTHMIC - NIBENTAN AND AMIODARONE FOR
SINUS RHYTHM RESTORATION IN PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS
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THE
EFFICACY OF A NEW ANTIARRHYTHMIC, ATI- Anita Arya, J Silberbauer, Rick Veasey, A.N. Sulke,
A.J. Camm ( |
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AUTOLOGOUS
DERMAL FIBROBLASTS SLOW ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION WHEN INJECTED IN THE
PERINODAL REGION Fernando
Tondato, Keith Robinson, Wenxin Pang, Alka Redkar, Nicolas Chronos,
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AN
INVESTIGATION OF ANIT-AF PACING ALGORITHMS - RESULTS OF THE PACEMAKER ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION STUDY (PAFS) John
Silberbauer, Lana Boodhoo, Andrew Mitchell, Anita Arya, Nick Freemantle,
Kayvan Kamalvand, Nikhil Patel, Vince Paul, Neil Sulke (Eastbourne, United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
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THE USE OF
ADVANCED PACEMAKER HOLTERS TO ASSESS DRUG EFFICACY IN
PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Anita Arya, J Silberbauer, J Vrahimides, R Veasey,
A.J. Camm, A.N. Sulke ( |
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SAFETY AND
EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTRATHORACIC SUBCLAVIAN VENIPUNCTURE FOR PACEMAKER AND
IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR LEADS IMPLANT: TEN-YEARS EXPERIENCE IN
663 PATIENTS Armando Gardini, Giuseppe
Benedini (Brescia, IT) |
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WHAT
EFFECT DOES RIGHT VENTRICULAR PACING HAVE IN PAF PATIENTS? John Silberbauer, Anita Arya, Nick Freemantle, Peter
O'Kane, Kayvan Kamalvand, Sean O'Nunain, Guy Lloyd, Nikhil Patel, Neil Sulke (Eastbourne,
GB and Northern IE) |
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AN
ASSESSMENT OF THE USEFULNESS OF ANTI-AF PACING ALGORITHMS TO REDUCE AF
SYMPTOMS AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION John Silberbauer, Rick Veasey, Lana Boodhoo, John
Vrahimides, Anita Arya, Kayvan Kamalvand, Nikhil Patel, Guy Lloyd, Neil Sulke
(Eastbourne, GB and Northern IE) |
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HIGH RATE
OF SUCCESS IN INTRODUCING PERMANENT STIMULATION/DEFIBRILLATION LEADS VIA
CEPHALIC OR RETRO-PECTORAL VEINS USING A GUIDEWIRE AND SPLIT-INTRODUCER |
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AV
INTERVAL OPTIMIZATION IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH TEMPORARY PACING AFTER
CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING Ronen
Rubinshtein, |
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DOES A
SHOCK FROM ELECTRICAL STUN GUN AFFECT THE FUNCTIONAL INTEGRITY OF PACEMAKER
AND DEFIBRILLATOR LEADS AND GENERATORS? Dhanunjaya
Lakkireddy, Dimpi Patel, Hanka Mlchova, Mina Chung, Donald Wallick, Atul
Verma, Natale Anrea, Patrick Tchou (Cleveland, US) |
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INEQUITY
OF ACCESS TO PACING IN Janet McComb, Christopher Plummer, Richard Charles,
Morag Cunningham, David Cunningham ( |
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CEPHALIC
VEIN CUTDOWN VERSUS EXTRATHORACIC SUBCLAVIAN VENIPUNCTURE FOR PACEMAKER AND
IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR LEADS IMPLANTATION: INCIDENCE OF LEAD
FRACTURES DURING LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP Armando Gardini, Giuseppe
Benedini (Brescia, IT) |
Poster Session 2-3: Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy
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CARDIAC
RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH NYHA CLASS II HEART FAILURE Gabe Bleeker, Martin Schalij,
Eduard Holman, Paul Steendijk, Ernst van der Wall, Jeroen Bax (Leiden, NL) |
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EFFECT OF
SEQUENTIAL VERSUS SIMULTANEOUS CARDIAC RESYNCHRONISATION THERAPY ON PEAK
OXYGEN CONSUMPTION David Fox, Adam Fitzpatrick, Simon Williams, Nigel
Clayton, Rajdeep Khattar, Kay Patterson, Alex Borg, Neil Davidson ( |
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ACCESSING
THE PERICARDIAL SPACE PERCUTANEOUSLY: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR
IMPLANTATION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR PACING LEADS? Dhiraj Gupta, Richard J Schilling ( |
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CLINICAL
VERSUS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS TO ASSESS RESPONSE TO CARDIAC
RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY Gabe
Bleeker, Martin Schalij, Jeffrey Wing-Hong, Ernst van der Wall, Joseph
Yat-Sun Chan, Qing Zhang, Jeroen Bax, Cheuk-Man Yu (Leiden, NL) |
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RIGHT AND
LEFT VENTRICULAR AUTOMATIC CAPTURE CONTROL BASED ON EVOKED RESPONSE
MORPHOLOGY. Paolo Diotallevi, PierAntonio
Ravazzi, Giuseppe |
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HEART
FAILURE MORTALITY AND SUDDEN DEATH MORTALITY IN 60 PATIENTS OF THE
Cristina Felicani, Domenico
Affinito, Giovannina Lepera, Elvira Moccia, Domenico Vasapollo, Franco
Naccarella (Bologna, IT) |
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BRAIN
NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE LEVELS DO NOT PREDICT OPTIMAL PROGRAMMED INTER
VENTRICULAR OFFSET FOR CARDIAC RESYNCHRONISATION THERAPY David Fox, Adam Fitzpatrick, Simon Williams, Rajdeep
Khattar, Alex Borg, Neil Davidson ( |
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EQUILIBRIUM
GATED RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY FOR VV DELAY OPTIMIZATION IN
BIVENTRICULAR PACING Sergey
Slyakhov, Dr. Sergey Zenin, Boris Kazeka, Oxana Kononenko, Olga Pyataeva ( |
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DILATED
CARDIOMYOPATHY WHO DO NOT RESPOND TO CARDIAC
RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY: CELLULAR THERAPY AS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR THIS
PATIENTS? Oswaldo
Tadeu Greco, Roberto Vito Ardito, Roberto T. Takeda, Jose Luiz B. Jacob,
Mario Roberto Lago, Lilian Piron Ruiz, Rinaldo Santos Costa, Marcelo Baffi,
Milton Artur Ruiz (São José do Rio Preto, Brazil) |
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CARDIAC
RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ARE THERE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN? Gabe Bleeker, Jeroen Bax,
Martin Schalij, Eric Boersma, Paul Steendijk, Ernst van der Wall (Leiden,
NL) |
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TISSUE
DOPPLER EVALUATION OF CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH
ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY Marisa
Trabulo, Regina Ribeiras, Pedro Adragao, Katya Reis-Santos, Diogo Cavaco,
Francisco Morgado, Luis Raposo, Ricardo Seabra-Gomes, José Aniceto-Silva (Lisbon,
PT) |
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RESYNCHRONISATION
OF HEART IN PATIENTS WITH INTRAVENTRICULAR CONDUCTIONS DISTURBACE Sergey
Popov, Igor Antonchenko, Galina Savenkova, Igor Plehanov, Alexandr Sokolov,
Stanislav Minin ( |
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RESCUING
FAILED BIVENTRICULAR IMPLANTS WITH RIGHT VENTRICULAR BIFOCAL STIMULATION TO
ASSURE CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION IN CHF PATIENTS. Paolo Diotallevi1, PierAntonio
Ravazzi1, Giuseppe |
Poster Session 2-4: Sudden Cardiac
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QT
INTERVAL ENLARGEMENT DUE TO METHADONE HAS LITTLE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Julio Marti-Almor, Francina
Fonseca, Neus Pizarro, J.Enrique Chueca, Merce Cladellas, Jordi Bruguera,
Marta Torrens (Barcelona, ES) |
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CONSCIOUS
SEDATION AND LOCAL ANAESTHETIC FOR INTERNAL CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD)
IMPLANTATION IN CATHETER LABORATORIES WITHOUT AN ANAESTHETIST PRESENT: SAFE,
EFFECTIVE AND WELL-TOLERATED. David Fox, Neil Davidson, Martin Royle, David
Bennett, Bernard Clarke, Amir Zaidi, Clifford Garratt, Kay Patterson, Adam
Fitzpatrick (Manchester, GB and Northern IE) |
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EFFECT OF
INDUCED VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION ON BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE: RESULTS OF
SERIAL MEASUREMENTS OF NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AFTER PREDISCHARGE TEST Marco
Budeus, Heinrich Wieneke, Mario Gössl, Stefan Sack, Raimund Erbel ( |
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INDEPENDENT
PREDICTORS OF MORTALITY IN A LARGE POPULATION OF UNSELECTED ICD PATIENTS WITH
Anuj Shah,
Arnoldas Giedrimas, Danette Guertin, Dalia Giedrimiene, Jeff Matther, Jeff
Klugger, Dr. Christopher Clyne (Hartford, US) |
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THE
FREQUENCY OF REOPERATIONS FOR PATIENTS WITH ICD IMPLANTATION - LONG TERM
FOLLOW-UP Gepner,
Katarzyna, Przybylski, Andrzej, Maciag, Aleksander, Lewandowski, Michal,
Sterlinski, Maciej, Szwed, Hanna ( |
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MADIT-II
CRITERIA FOR ICD'S- HOW LONG SHOULD WE WAIT? Adel Baluch, Dr. Khalid El-Badawi, Phyllis Holt ( |
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FURTHER
OBSERVATION ON TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF ICD DISCHARGES AND ENVIRONMENTAL
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. Elyiahu Stoupel,
Jairo Kusniec, Alexander Mazur, Ronit Zabarsky, Gregory Golovchiner, Evgeny
Abramson, Peter Israelevich, Boris Strasberg, Alexander Battler (Petah
Tiqwa, IL) |
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POSTDEFIBRILLATION
VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS IN PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTABLE DEFIBRILLATORS:
RELATIONSHIP WITH SHOCK ENERGY Helen
Hatzinikolaou-Kotsakou, Georgios Bobotis, Dimitrios Tziakas, Dimitrios
Stakos, Nikolaos Papanas, Aggelos Mavridis, Efstratios Maltezos, Dimitrios
Hatseras (Alexandroupolis, GR) |
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SHORT QT
OR THE GAITA SYNDROME: REPORT OF 2 SIBLINGS.
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DEPRESSION
AND ANXIETY STATUS OF PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR
(ICD) AND PRECIPITATING FACTORS Ahmet Kaya
Bilge, Dr. Beste Ozben, Sabri |
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SUCCESSFUL
ICD IMPLANTATION AND THERAPY IN A PATIENT WITH DUCHENNE´S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
[DMD] Joachim Will, Bernd
Opgen-Rhein, Micha Botsch, Felix Berger (Berlin, DE) |
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PERIOPERATIVE
CHANGING OF ARRHYTHMIA PROFILE AFTER CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR IMPLANTATION
PREDICTS A HIGH RISK FOR EARLY CARDIAC DEATH IN PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT
CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR THERAPY Alexander
Schirdewan, Marisa Walther, Robert Fischer, Henry Schütt, Thomas Zerm, Udo
Zacharzowski, Niels Wessel, Rainer Dietz (Berlin, DE) |
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SUPRAVENTRICULAR
TACHYARRHYTHMIA, POSSIBLE CAUSE OF SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST. Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot,
Olivier Marçon, Frédéric Chometon, Julien Bertrand, Hugues Blangy,
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EP STUDY
PREDICTS INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF THERAPY AND SURVIVAL BUT NOT THE TYPE OF
TREATED ARRHYTHMIAS. LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP OF 288 CONSECUTIVE ICD - IMPLANTED
PATIENTS IN A René Worck (Hellerup, DK) |
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DEVELOPMENT OF A RECHARGEABLE IMPLANTABLE
CARDIOVERTER/DEFIBRILLATOR - FIRST RESULTS OF A LONG-TERM ANIMAL STUDY Daniel |
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EFFECTIVENESS
OF THE SECOND INTERNAL CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR AFTER ELECTIVE REPLACEMENT
FOR Michael Koa-Wing, Prapa Kanagaratnam, Ian Wright,
Sophie Blackman, Vias Markides,
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FACTORS
AFFECTING PROVISION OF IMPLANTABLE DEFIBRILLATORS IN Janet McComb, Christopher Plummer, David Cunningham ( |
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CAR
ACCIDENTS IN PATIENTS IMPLANTED WITH ICD. A SINGLE
CENTRE EXPERIENCE. Antonio Curnis, Luca Bontempi,
Tania Bordonali, Tommaso Bignotti, Marco Racheli, Manuel Cerini, Dr. Giosue
Mascioli, Livio |
Poster Session 3-1: Supraventricular arrhythmias
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ASYMPTOMATIC
WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE IN CHILDREN Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot, Frédéric Chometon, Gilles
Bosser, François Marçon (Vandoeuvre les Nancy, FR) |
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NATURAL
HISTORY OF WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME. INSIGHTS FOR VENTRICULAR
PREEXCITATION RISK STRATIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT. THE
V-PRISM STUDY Carlo Pappone, Nicoleta Sora,
Andrea Radinovic, Gabriele Vicedomini, Alessandra Marzi, Sala Simone,
Patrizio Mazzone, Giuseppe Augello, Vincenzo Santinelli (Milan, IT) |
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
AND HOSPITAL RESOURCES CONSUMPTION FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ATRIAL
TACHYARRHYTHMIAS. Eraldo Occhetta, Paolo
Diotallevi, Luca Venegoni, V. Martinelli, G. Zaccone, P. Ponzi, A. Scivales,
F. Caprari (Novara, IT) |
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AV NODAL
SLOW PATHWAY ABLATION: IS CRYO AS EFFECTIVE AND SAFER THAN RADIOFREQUENCY? Sergio
Thal, Mina Chung, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Ouzama Wazni, Mohammed Khan,
Mohammed Kanj, Mandeep Bhargava, Robert Schweikert, Patrick Tchou (Cleveland,
US) |
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BEHAVIOR
OF ANTEROGRADE EFFECTIVE REFRACTORY PERIOD OF FAST PATHWAY DURING A SECOND
RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION IN A POPULATION WITH RECURRENT
ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA. Helen
Hatzinikolaou-Kotsakou, Dimitrios Tziakas, Dimitrios Floros, Athanasios
Hotidis, Aggelos Mavridis, Aglaia Kostaki, Dimitrios Hatseras (Alexandroupolis,
GR) |
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ABLATION
OF INTRA-ATRIAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIAS RELATED TO ATRIAL LESIONS AFTER
SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE WITH CONVENTIONAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC
METHODS. José Gonzalez, Néstor Galizio,
Pablo Dávila, Luis Medesani, Gustavo Fava (Capital
Federal, AR) |
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CASE MIX
AND SUCCESS OF CATHETER ABLATION OF SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN
"REAL-WORLD" ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY. Refai Showkathali, Mark J Earley, Maysaa Alzetani,
Stuart Harris, Dhiraj Gupta, Peter Kistler, Simon Sporton, Anthony W Nathan,
Richard J Schilling (London, GB and Northern IE) |
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ABLATION
OF MACRO-REENTRANT AND FOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIAS IN PATIENTS WITH CONGENITAL
HEART DEFECTS: THE ROLE OF CIRCUMSCRIBED AREAS WITH HETEROGENEOUS CONDUCTION Natasja de Groot, Martin
Schalij (Leiden, NL) |
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IS
CONTACTR A NEW EFFECTIVE CATHETER FOR ABLATION OF TYPICAL ATRIAL FLUTTER? Laura
Vitali Serdoz, Sabine Ernst, Feifan Ouyang, Matthias Antz, Dietmar Baensch,
Karl Heinz Kuck (Milano, IT) |
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RADIOFREQUENCY
ABLATION OF ATRIAL AND VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS USING 3-D ELECTROANATOMIC
MAPPING IN PATIENTS WITH INFILTRATIVE MYOCARDIAL DISEASES: EFFECT ON EARLY
AND LATE RECURRENCES Subramanya
Prasad, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Mauricio Arruda, Fethi Kilicaslan, Jennifer
Cummings, Mohammed Khan, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US) |
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COMPARISON
OF NOVEL AND TRADITIONAL APPROACH FOR RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION OF
ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY TACHYCARDIA
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Poster
Session 3-2: Catheter ablation in childhood
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RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER
ABLATION OF TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT HEART DISEASE Alonso Pedrote, Dr. Eduardo
Arana, Nieves Romero, Raul Lopez Aguilar, Ana Manovel, Carlos Gomez, Lorena
Garcia Riesco, Francisco Errazquin (Sevilla, ES) |
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PULMONARY
VEINS ISOLATION IN CHILDREN Sergey
Popov, Igor Antonchenko, Roman Batalov, Igor Kovalev ( |
Poster Session 3-3: Atrial fibrillation
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ANALYSIS
OF THE TEMPORAL IRREGULARITY OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION CYCLE LENGTH Natasja de Groot, Schalij
Martin, Maurits Allessie (Leiden, NL) |
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COMPARISON
OF EPICARDIAL BREAKTHROUGH OF FIBRILLATION WAVES BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE
AND CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Natasja de Groot, Martin
Schalij, Maurits Allesie (Leiden, NL) |
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ROLE OF
PLASMA B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN PREDICTING RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL DIRECT CURRENT CARDIOVERSION Abhay Bajpai,
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A STUDY OF
REDUCED FLOW VELOCITY OF LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENCE OF LEFT ATRIAL AND OR LEFT ATRIAL
APPENDAGE THROMBI Salah
Atta, Shirin Abdel-salam, Yehia Kishk (Assiut, EG) |
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FRACTIONATED
ATRIAL POTENTIALS: MARKERS OF THE ORIGIN OF FOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA Natasja de Groot, Martin
Schalij (Leiden, NL) |
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INDUCIBILITY
OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DURING ATRIOVENTRICULAR PACING WITH VARYING INTERVALS:
ROLE OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE ELECTROPHYSILOGIC PROPERTIES OF
THE ATRIUM. Helen
Hatzinikolaou-Kotsakou, Dimitrios Floros, Dimitrios Stakos, Athanasios
Hotidis, George Chalikias, Maria Kotsakou, Aggelos Mavridis, Dimitrios
Hatseras (Alexandroupolis, GR) |
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THE
EFFECTS OF ANGIOTENSIN ¢ò ON THE CURRENTS IN HUMAN ATRIAL MYOCYTES AND
MEDIATION OF VALSARTAN Yumei Xue,
Chunyu |
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HEART RATE
SUPERIOR TO HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN PREDICTION OF
MORTALITY UP TO 7 YEARS AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Steen
Abildstrom, Berit Jensen, Jørgen Kanters (Hellerup, DK) |
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PROLONGATION
OF SIGNAL-AVERAGED P WAVE DURATION IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND
HYPERTENSION DURING LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP. Carsten
Lindberg Olsen, Steen Z. Abildstrom, Lasse Steen Ravn, Ulrik Dixen ( |
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ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION IN THE ELDERLY; ARE ORAL ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY UNDERUSED? Dhaker
lahidheb, Wafa Fehri, Oualid Ouartani, Rana Dahmani, Othman Salah, Nadhem
Hajlaoui, Nadia Barakett, Zahreddine Smiri,
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THE EFFECT
OF AMIODARONE AND PERINDOPRIL ON ATRIAL FIBRILLATION RECURRENCE Grigoryan
Svetlana, Lusine Hazarapetyan ( |
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DEGREE OF
FRACTIONATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ELECTROGRAMS DURING ACUTE AND CHRONIC AF
Natasja de Groot, Martin
Schalij, Maurits Allessie (Leiden, NL) |
Poster Session
3-4: Ablation techniques in atrial fibrillation
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INTRACARDIAC
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PERCUTANEOUS ABLATION PROCEDURES Rute
Couto, Katya Reys-Santos, Diogo Cavaco, Pedro Adragão, Daniel Bonhorst,
Ricardo Seabra-Gomes (Carnaxide, PT) |
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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC
CHANGES IN THE PULMONARY VEIN ANTRUM ISOLATION VS. AV NODE ABLATION WITH
BI-VENTRICULAR PACING FOR TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE TRIAL (PABA CHF) Mohammed
Khan, Pierre Jais, Domenico Potenza, Paul Wang, Pietro Santarelli,
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IS
PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION (PVI) A BETTER THERAPEUTIC OPTION THAN
ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE ABLATION (AVNA) AND DIRECT CURRENT CARDIOVERSION (DCC)?
MORTALITY DIFFERENCES IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. Dhanunjaya
Lakkireddy, Dimpi Patel, Sergio Thal, Oussama Wazni, Fethi Kilicaslan, Atul
Verma, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US) |
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ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL
PREDICTORS OF FREEDOM FROM ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER TRANSCATHETER PULMONARY
VEIN ISOLATION Lucia |
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EFFECTIVENESS
OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION IN THE TREATMENT OF PAROXYSMAL VERSUS PERSISTENT
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Carolien
de Knegt, Richard N. W. Hauer, Fred H.M. Wittkampf, Anton E. Tuinenburg,
Harry van Wessel, L. Hendrik Boldt, K. Peter Loh (Utrecht, NL) |
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ROLE OF
PULMONARY VEINS IN THE MAINTENANCE OF CLINICAL EPISODES OF PAROXYSMAL AND
PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Pierpaolo Lupo, Cristina
Esposito, Laura Vitali-Serdoz, Maddalena Colicci, Sara Foresti, Mario
Pittalis, Francesco Furlanello, Luigi |
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EXTENT OF
ALTERED LEFT ATRIAL MYOCARDIUM IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL AND PERSISTENT
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION UNDERGOING CATHETER ABLATION Leif-Hendrik
Boldt, Sascha Rolf, |
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IMPACT OF
TREATMENT WITH AMIODARONE ON OUTCOME OF CATHETER ABLATION IN PATIENTS WITH
CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. Mark
O'Neill, Prashanthan Sanders, Anders Jonsson, Yoshihide Takahashi, Mélèze
Hocini, Pierre Jaïs, Fréderic Sacher, Jacques Clémenty, Michel Haïssaguerre (Bordeaux,
FR) |
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EFFECTS OF
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION ON LEFT ATRIAL SIZE Steve
Huijnen, Dominique Blommaert, Benoit Collet, Fabien Dormal, Prof. Luc
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PATTERNS
OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE FIRST MONTHS AFTER PULMONARY VEINS
CRYOISOLATION Wendel
Moreira, Carl Timmermans, David Perez, Yuka Mizusawa, Suzanne Philippens,
Luz-Maria Rodriguez ( |
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INABILITY
TO ISOLATE ALL FOUR PULMONARY VEINS WITH ENDOSCOPIC LASER BALLOON ABLATION
SYSTEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RATE OF RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Robert
Schweikert, Vivek Reddy, |
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PULMONARY
VEIN ANTRAL ISOLATION (PVAI): EFFECT ON MULTI-SITE ATRIAL EFFECTIVE
REFRACTORY PERIOD Dhanunjaya
Lakkireddy, Subramanya Prasad, Ashok Kondur, Oussama Wazni, Walid Saliba,
Mauricio Arruda, Mohammed Kanj, Robert Schweikert, Andrea Natale (Cleveland,
US) |
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POST
SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS RELATED TO RADIOFREQUENCY MAZE: DETRIMENTAL ROLE OF
RIGHT ATRIAL LINES David
Luria, Eyal Nof, Leonid Sternik, Ehud Raanani, Ateret Malachi, Sharona Bahar,
Osnat Gurevitz, Prof. Michael Eldar, Michael Glikson (Tel Hashomer, IL) |
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PROGRESSION
OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE PULMONARY VEIN ANTRUM ISOLATION VS. AV NODE
ABLATION WITH BI-VENTRICULAR PACING FOR TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN
PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE TRIAL (PABA CHF) Mohammed
Khan, Pierre Jais, Domenico Potenza, Paul Wang, Pietro Santarelli,
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LONG-TERM
CLINICAL OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND LEFT VENTRICULAR
DYSFUNCTION AFTER ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL CATHETER-ABLATION Nebojsa
Mujovic, Miodrag Grujic, Stevan Mrdja, Tatjana Potpara ( |
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FUSION OF
MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY WITH ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING TO GUIDE
RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION Laurens
Tops, Jeroen Bax, Katja Zeppenfeld, Hildo Lamb, Ernst van der Wall, Martin
Schalij ( |
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CATHETER ABLATION
OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION GUIDED BY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGINING Ioan Liuba, Håkan Walfridsson
(Linköping, SE) |
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REAL TIME
IMPEDANCE INCREASE IS SUBOPTIMAL IN DEFINING PULMONARY VEIN OSTIUM Mohamed
Kanj, Ousama Wazni, Sergio Thal, DJ Lakkeriddy, Andrea Natale ( |
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EFFECTIVENESS
OF HIGH-SEPTAL RIGHT VENTRICULAR PACING IN PATIENTS WITH PERMANENT ATRIAL
FIBRILLATION AFTER AV NODE ABLATION Oskars
Kalejs, Janis Jirgensons, Maris Blumbergs, Nikolajs Nesterovics, Sandis Sakne,
Maija Vikmane, Mara Sauka, Janis Ansabergs (Riga, LV) |