Arrhythmias & EP
Commentary
The most important study from ESC: FRAIL-AF
This is the kind of science that medicine should celebrate. There were no soft endpoints, financial conflicts, or spin.
Conference Coverage
Advanced HF no obstacle to AFib ablation success: CASTLE-HTx
One of the study’s key messages “is that AF ablation is safe and effective in patients with end-stage heart failure” and “should be part of our...
Conference Coverage
Anticoagulation no benefit in presumed AFib detected by cardiac devices
“Based on the result of this trial, these occasional atrial high-rate episodes do not appear to be associated with stroke. It appears quite benign...
Conference Coverage
No reduction in AFib after noncardiac surgery with colchicine: COP-AF
“We think that further studies are needed to tease out which patients can benefit from colchicine and in what setting it can be used.”
Conference Coverage
Pulsed field ablation challenges conventional devices in AFib
“Patients do not have to worry about the possibility – albeit rare – of esophageal fistulae and other problems. It is faster with at least the...
Opinion
American Geriatrics Society 2023 updated Beers Criteria highlights
The guidelines address safe prescribing of medications to older adults after review of 1,500 clinical trials and research studies.
From the Journals
Crossed wires: Ischemia testing and monomorphic VT storm
“That’s why this is such a great paper, because it has an immediate message [for nonelectrophysiologist clinicians and] the potential to change...
Commentary
Are fish oils on the hook for AFib risk?
Though there is plausibility and multiple reasons to infer causality of marine omega-3s in increasing AFib risk, the effect size remains unknown...
From the Journals
Serious arrhythmias playing video games ‘extremely rare’
“If patients are “properly diagnosed, risk stratified, and treated, it is okay to engage in e-gaming.”
From the Journals
LAAO tied to fewer post-fall bleeds than DOACs in AF
This is the first study to focus on LAAO specifically for those at risk for falling.
From the Journals
Cognitive problems transient after AFib ablation
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is “very likely due to the vulnerable state of mind and the stress that the patients encounter while...