Background: Many patients requiring permanent pacemaker (PPM) or implantable cardiac
defibrillator (ICD) placement are anticoagulated with warfarin, aspirin (ASA), and clopidogrel …

Background To treat chronic heart failure (CHF), we developed a robust, easy to handle
bioabsorbable tissue-engineered patch embedded with human neonatal fibroblasts and human …

Background The role of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) to detect thrombus within left
atrium (LA) before atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation despite a recent transesophageal …

The cardiac bidomain model is a popular approach to study electrical behavior of tissues
and simulate interactions between the cells by solving partial differential equations. The …

The history and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) brings together developments
in three main fields. The first to develop was basic life support, followed by advanced life …

In an age of great technical advances with many tools to evaluate and treat the heart we are
referred to Einthoven’s remarks “An instrument takes its true value not so much from the …

Objective: The objective of this study was to define the clinical relevance of in vivo
electrophysiologic (EP) studies in a rat model of chronic ischemic heart failure (CHF). Methods: …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a very common clinical problem affecting more than 2.3 million US
adults. 1 This high prevalence is expected to rise over time because of increasing risk factors (…

Heart failure (HF) post-myocardial infarction (MI) presents with increased vulnerability to
monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (mmVT). To appropriately evaluate new therapies for …

Imaging of the right ventricle (RV) for the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular
cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) is commonly performed by echocardiography or magnetic …