Do most patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes, and atrial fibrillation, also have undiagnosed heart failure? A critical conceptual framework for understanding …

M Packer - European journal of heart failure, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity and diabetes can lead to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF),
potentially because they both cause expansion and inflammation of epicardial adipose …

Electroanatomic and pathologic right ventricular outflow tract abnormalities in patients with Brugada syndrome

M Pieroni, P Notarstefano, A Oliva… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: The prevalence and significance of structural abnormalities in Brugada
syndrome (BrS) are still largely debated. Objectives: The authors investigated the …

Catheter ablation of VT in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies: endocardial, epicardial and intramural approaches

A Bhaskaran, R Tung, WG Stevenson… - Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2019 - Elsevier
Non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders
that includes genetic, idiopathic, post viral and inflammatory cardiomyopathies. NICM is …

Right ventricular outflow tract electroanatomical abnormalities in asymptomatic and high‐risk symptomatic patients with Brugada syndrome: Evidence for a new risk …

KP Letsas, K Vlachos, G Conte… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Microstructural abnormalities at the epicardium of the right ventricular outflow
tract (RVOT) may provide the arrhythmia substrate in Brugada syndrome (BrS). Endocardial …

Omnipolarity applied to equi-spaced electrode array for ventricular tachycardia substrate mapping

A Porta-Sanchez, K Magtibay, S Nayyar… - EP …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Aims Bipolar electrogram (BiEGM)-based substrate maps are heavily influenced by
direction of a wavefront to the mapping bipole. In this study, we evaluate high-resolution …

Sinus rhythm voltage fingerprinting in patients with mitral valve disease using a high-density epicardial mapping approach

MS van Schie, R Starreveld, AJJC Bogers… - EP …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims Unipolar voltage (UV) mapping is increasingly used for guiding ablative therapy of
atrial fibrillation (AF) as unipolar electrograms (U-EGMs) are independent of electrode …

Electroanatomical voltage mapping to distinguish right-sided cardiac sarcoidosis from arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

JC Hoogendoorn, M Sramko, J Venlet, KC Siontis… - Clinical …, 2020 - jacc.org
Objectives This study sought to investigate the value of electroanatomical voltage mapping
(EAVM) to distinguish cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) from arrhythmogenic right ventricular …

Right ventricular outflow tract low‐voltage areas identify the site of origin of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias: a high‐density mapping study

KP Letsas, M Efremidis, K Vlachos… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Electronatomical mapping allows direct and accurate visualization of
myocardial abnormalities. This study investigated whether high‐density endocardial bipolar …

Unipolar voltage mapping in right ventricular cardiomyopathy: pitfalls, solutions and advantages

JC Hoogendoorn, J Venlet, M de Riva… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims Endocardial unipolar and bipolar voltage mapping (UVM/BVM) of the right ventricle
(RV) are used for transmural substrate delineation. However, far-field electrograms (EGMs) …

Characterization of the electrophysiological substrate in patients with Barlow's disease

P Vergara, I Scarfò, A Esposito… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Myxomatous mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral‐annular disjunction
(Barlow disease) are at‐risk for ventricular arrhythmias (VA). Fibrosis involving the papillary …