European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

EHRA Summit 2010: E-health and personalised health care in arrhythmias

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 Trust and Security
Marc Dacier

 Bridging the chasm between ICT specialists and clinicians
W. Ed Hammond

Arrhythmia highlights - Our web committee's choice

• Magnetic resonance imaging of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators without specific absorption rate restrictions.
  Mollerus M et al. Europace. 2010;.12(7): 947-951. Read more

• Dronedarone in patients with congestive heart failure: insights from ATHENA .
  Hohnloser SH et al for the ATHENA Investigators. Eur Heart J. 2010; 31(14): 1717-1721 doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq113. Read more

• An entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
  Bardy GH et al. N Engl J Med. 2010; 363(1): 36-44. Read more

• Circumferential pulmonary vein ablation with additional linear ablation results in an increased incidence of left atrial flutter compared with segmental pulmonary vein isolation as an initial approach to ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
  Sawhney N et al. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2010; 3(3): 243-248. Read more

• Periprocedural stroke and management of major bleeding complications in patients undergoing catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: the impact of periprocedural therapeutic international normalized ratio.
  Di Biase L et al. Circulation. 2010; 121(23): 2550-2556. Read more