EP Europace Journal

Official journal of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the ESC Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology. EP Europace is also an official journal of the ESC Working Group on e-Cardiology

Topic(s):

Arrhythmias

Covering the fields of arrhythmias, pacing and cellular electrophysiology

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EP Europace — The European Journal of Pacing, Arrhythmias and Cardiac Electrophysiology of the European Heart Rhythm Association, and the ESC Working Group on cardiac cellular electrophysiology, aims to provide an avenue of communication of top quality European and international original scientific work and reviews in the fields of Arrhythmias, Pacing and Cellular Electrophysiology.

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Editor-in-Chief: Gerhard Hindricks, FESC (DE)
Co-Editor: Luc Jordaens, FESC (NL)

ISSN : 1099-5129
Volume 19 - year 2017
12 issues

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Impact Factor Ranking

Impact Factor 2016 : 4.530 (New record)

2001= 0.808, 2002= 0.971, 2003= 1.089, 2004= 1.176, 2005= 1.461, 2006= 1.477, 2007= 1.376, 2008= 1.706, 2009= 1.871, 2010= 1.839, 2011= 1.980, 2012= 2.765, 2013= 3.050, 2014= 3.670, 2015= 4.021

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Date

Title

Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 1 Non-invasive detection of exercise induced cardiac conduction abnormalities in sudden cardiac death survivors in the inherited arrhythmic syndromes
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 2 A multi-centre study into the use of Ripple Mapping to differentiate atrial scar from conducting tissue during tachycardia ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 21 Thromboembolic events in left ventricular endocardial pacing: long-term outcomes from a Multicentre UK registry
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 22 Cied lead extraction in the elderly has low risk
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 23 Empiric versus entrained cavotricuspid isthmus line ablation in congenital heart disease: a single centre experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 24 Long-term outcomes of supraventricular tachycardia ablation in congenital heart disease: single centre UK experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 25 First evidence that differences in the t-wave upslope of the body surface ECG reflect right to left dispersion of repolarization in the intact human heart
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 26 Neuro-cardiac profiling of electrophysiologic and structural remodeling in an in-vitro rabbit heart failure model
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 27 Markers of depolarization abnormalities (fragmented QRS and early repolarization pattern) in patients with myocarditis.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 28 Left atrial voltage predicts AF recurrence after ablation, irrespective of the rhythm during mapping, while circulating biomarkers of fibrosis do not.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 29 Refining the diagnostic criteria of the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) using power spectral indices
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 30 Optimising the predictive capability of a mathematical model of AF progression using cardiac device data
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 31 Ablation of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation using the ACQMAP 3-D mapping system – an early single centre experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 32 Improving target identification of persistent atrial fibrillation ablation using simultaneous intracardiac mapping
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 33 Accuracy of left atrial bipolar voltages obtained by ConfiDENSE multielectrode mapping in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 34 The impact of the presence of left atrial low voltage areas on outcomes from pulmonary vein isolation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 35 Power, lesion size index and oesophageal temperature alerts during atrial fibrillation ablation (PILOT-AF): a randomized study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 36 Derivation of a prediction model for the optimization of patient selection for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: the AF-FREEDOM score.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 37 Effect of activation wavefront on electrogram characteristics during ventricular tachycardia ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 38 Multimodality image reconstruction and fusion to guide VT ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 39 Application of the novel ‘shanghai’ diagnostic criteria for brugada syndrome reduces the number of diagnoses with low risk of arrhythmic events in index cases
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 40 Development of atrial fibrillation following ablation for typical atrial flutter cannot be predicted by conventional risk factors; time for a rethink in ablation strategy?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 41 Evolution of PROMS data and what it tells us about patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 42 Atrial fibrillation ablation as a day-case procedure: three-year single-centre experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 3 The end of pre-implant subcutaneous ICD screening? Using mathematical vector rotation to generate a personalised sensing vector resulting in universal device eligibility
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 4 Insights into the mechanisms of triggered activity during long qt conditions in the intact heart using optical mapping
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 43 Long-term clinical outcomes of cardiac resynchronization therapy with or without defibrillation: impact of the etiology of cardiomyopathy
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 44 Early experience of intra-operative use of ECGI during VT ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 45 Atrial tachyarrhythmia ablation in lateral tunnel fontan patients: a case series
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 46 Smartphone apps for the detection of AF
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 47 Radiofrequency balloon catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, RADIANCE STUDY–a UK experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 48 Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation on uninterrupted NOACs: a safe approach?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 49 Patients on novel oral anticoagulants require higher doses of unfractionated heparin than those on warfarin to achieve a target act value during ablation of left atrial tachyarrhythmias
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 50 Modification in head up tilt test protocol increases diagnostic yield and better-elucidates the mechanism of situational syncope
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 51 Cardiac arrest in the absence of an acute coronary artery occlusion: characteristics and outcomes of patients with primary arrhythmic arrest in a UK tertiary centre
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 52 HF-RADD - heart failure risk according to device diagnostics: a prospective observational study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 53 Generation of the first functional map of left atrial ganglionated plexus sites that induce AV nodal bradycardia
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 54 How multinational community pharmacists worked with AF Association and Arrhythmia Alliance pulse rhythm check campaign Know Your Pulse) to raise awareness of and identify people at risk of AF
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 55 Impact of open audit on procedural performance in electrophysiology catheter laboratory
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 56 The changing trends in new ICD and CRT-D implants over the last 20 years at a single large tertiary cardiology centre
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 57 Day- case implant of complex pacing devices is safe and preferred by patients
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 58 Screen, EAARN, or valid-CRT score, which one best predicts CRT response and long-term survival?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 59 Can high volume tertiary centres with 24/7 device implanting service provide improved efficacy and outcomes compared to a large district general hospital model?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 60 Is this the beginning of the end for warfarin?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 61 Prevalence and spectrum of genetic variants in a single-centre cohort of Brugada syndrome
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 62 Long term success rates following pulmonary vein isolation with 2nd generation cryoballoon ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; 3.5 year follow up
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 63 How good are new ELRS in AF monitoring?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 64 Cryoablation for persistent and long standing persistent atrial fibrillation: a single centre experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 65 Improving access to arrhythmia services: the role of the cardiac rhythm management specialist nurses
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 5 Characteristics of ablated rotors in terminating persistent atrial fibrillation using non-contact mapping
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 6 A novel mapping system for panoramic mapping of the left atrium: validation and application to detect and characterise localised sources maintaining AF
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 66 How well do London ambulance assess potential T-LOC patients in comparison to nice guidance
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 67 Does non-specialist care mean under treatment with antiarrhythmic drugs and poor DC cardioversion outcome for persistent atrial fibrillation - a single centre study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 68 Clinical use of the 3D Rhythmia Mapping System For Ablation of Arrhythmias: preliminary data from the TRUE-HD study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 69 Identifying opportunities to prevent AF-related stroke through better access to NHS primary and secondary care data
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 70 Incidence of arrhythmias in Ebstein’s anomaly in a single centre
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 71 Percutaneous suture closure of the left atrial appendage in patients with a high CHA2DS2 VASC score and absolute contraindication for oral anticoagu-lant therapy – the UNITED KINGDOM experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 72 Heart rate variability evaluation in patients with long standing persistent atrial fibrillation treated with thoracoscopic surgical ablation with ganglionic plexi ablation or catheter ablation - recordings from implantable loop recorder
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 73 Analysing mortality variances between right ventricular high septal pacing vs. right ventricular apical pacing following av node ablation: 10 years follow up
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 74 Predicting success of atrial fibrillation ablation by point by point and single shot ablation techniques
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 75 Internal cardioverter defibrillator follow up data of out of hospital cardiac arrest survivors within a tertiary centre in the UK
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 76 MADIT RIT in the real world – an observational tertiary centre study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 77 USe of ultra-high density activation mapping to aid isthmus identification in atrial macro-reentrant tachycardias in complex congenital heart disease
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 78 Voltage and pace- capture mapping of linear ablation lesions overestimate chronic gap size
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 79 Panoramic atrial mapping with basket catheters: a quantitative analysis to optimise practice, patient selection and catheter choice.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 80 Relationship of conduction velocity and conduction velocity dynamics to bipolar voltage and drivers in atrial arrhythmia
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 81 Post-mortem ICD interrogation in mode of death classification
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 82 Long term outcome following left atrial appendage occlusion: real world experience from a single centre prospective registry
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 83 Use of ECGi and re-entry vulnerability index to predict VT Re-entry sites in sinus rhythm
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 84 Single-centre experience of cied lead extraction using cook medical evolution system
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 85 A new mapping technique for atrial fibrillation shows frequent focal and uniform activations
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 86 Incorrect coding of atrial fibrillation leads to under-treatment with anticoagulation in pacing clinics
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 87 Clinical evaluation of the ‘pulse smart rhythm analyst’: a novel software algorithm and pulse oximeter combination for mass screening of atrial fibrillation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 88 One-year outcomes of triple therapy and adherence with ESC guidelines in patients with AF undergoing PCI in a teaching hospital
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 89 Differences in right and left atrial structure and electrophysiology in ARVD
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 90 Investigating the tissue response to radiofrequency ablation during left atrial posterior wall ablation: analysis of unipolar electrogram morphological changes following visitag-guided pulmonary vein isolation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 91 Trans-coronary pacing to assess myocardial viability prior to percutaneous coronary intervention
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 7 Investigating the utility of subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in the adult congenital heart disease population
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 8 Pre-existing right ventricular paced heart failure patients upgraded to cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices: a retrospective assessment of the functional and clinical benefits
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 9 Implementation of opportunistic screening at Pre-Assessment Clinics for upgrade/downgrade of cardiac devices
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 92 Pan London ‘know your pulse’ awareness campaign during world heart rhythm week 2017
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 93 Impact of QTc formulae in the prevalence of short and long corrected QT intervals in a young adult cohort
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 94 Routine pre assessment variables fail to predict response to CRT
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 95 Fluoroscopy times in electrophysiology and device procedures: impact of single frame location fluoroscopy
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 96 Cost effectiveness of a risk-stratified approach to cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillators at the time of generator change
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 97 Patient self-reported pain and contributing factors during the implant of cardiac implantable electronic devices
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 100 Do automatic CRT optimisation algorithms work? A comparison of techniques
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 101 REVEAL™ AND CARELINK™ (REAL CARE): minimising diagnostic time in the implantable loop recorder populatioN
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 99 Temporary pacing optimisation post cardiac surgery. Are we missing a trick?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 102 Protocol for a systematic search and critical review of studies, in effective strategies to maintain quality of life in adult patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome utilizing an interpretive approach
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 103 How is our local AF management? The management of atrial fibrillation (af) in coventry and rugby clinical commissioning group (ccg), england compared to national data and nice (national institute for clinical excellence) 2014
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 105 Investigation of the transmural action potential duration and repolarization properties of scar borderzone in patients undergoing ventricular tachycardia ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 106 ECG predictors of ventricular arrhythmia and non arrhythmic death in the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator population
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 107 Thoracoscopicepicardial left atrial appendage occlusion in stroke prevention in non-valvular atrial fibrillation - long-term resultes
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 108 The role of permanent pacing following cardiac surgery. Appropriateness and timing of implants: a large tertiary single centre experience.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 109 Accuracy of test results for Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) and Warfarin- importance of External Quality Assessment (EQA)
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 110 Working with community pharmacists to improve anticoagulation new medicine service discussions
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 111 Supporting initiation of anticoagulation with ‘jack’, a video counselling tool
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 112 “I don’t know how you can be the decision maker when you don’t understand”: designing a tailored E-health intervention to empower patients living with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 113 Review of management of cardiac arrest and predictors of outcome in a large district general hospital “cardiac arrest centre”
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 114 P wave morphology and spectral analysis of signal averaged ECG’S in paroxysmal AF patients: can this explain anatomical basis of paroxysmal AF and their propensity to recurrence
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 115 Anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation – a single-centre audit on patient education, stroke and bleeding risk assessments and use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs)
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 116 Survey to evaluate awareness and current practice of venous thromboembolism prevention following electrophysiological procedures in the United Kingdom
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 117 The impact of atrial fibrillation on the survival of patients with degenerative aortic stenosis. a prospective clinical study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 118 A novel method to determine left atrial compliance in vivo: relationship with markers of remodelling in AF
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 10 Remote monitoring of ILRs, when is more too much?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 11 Analysis of trigger factors is one of the important point in the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease and high-grade ventricular arrhythmias
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 12 Is cardiac resynchronisation therapy more effective in females than males? A comparison of STH patients and the findings of MADIT-CRT
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 13 SAFE2SCREEN - can patient initiated kiosk-based self-screening provide an opportunity to identify atrial fibrillation within a GP waiting room environment?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 119 P wave duration and spectral analysis of signal averaged P wave: can this guide us in deciding the extent of af ablation required beyond pulmonary vein isolation? - A prospective study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 120 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing echocardiography features predicting the safety and efficacy of a central arterio-venous fistula with subgroup analysis assessing the impact of the device on blood pressure control and AF burden
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 121 Effective atrial conducting size does not predict human AF vulnerability
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 122 Reducing the burden of unnecessary LINQ implantable loop recorder remote downloads by implementing an in-hospital multidisciplinary strategy to individualise management of patients with high volume downloads
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 123 CMRI-assessed left ventricular extra-cellular volume fraction, not left atrial late gadolinium uptake, is related to higher left atrial pressure and increased type 1 collagen telopeptide levels in pre-ablation AF patients
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 124 GP-led anticoagulation counselling for non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) in the community is neither comprehensive nor accurate: Results from a service improvement project.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 126 Implantable loop recorders - diagnostic yield in patients with syncope and presyncope
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 127 Setting up a VT ablation service – where to set the bar of patient selection?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 128 Internal loop recorder (‘Reveal’) implantation as a diagnostic tool in patients with unexplained syncope
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 129 Atrial flutter in hospital practice: the burden of atrial flutter on a regional cardioversion service, and barriers to referral for ablation
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 130 Improving the implementation of anti-coagulation therapy in AF patients at risk of stroke in a primary care setting
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 131 ‘Silent’ atrial tachyarrhythmia and potential cryptogenic stroke: a ‘real-world’ study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 132 The prevalence of upgrade to biventricular pacing after bradycardia pacing is less than 2%: a 12-year series of over 750 patients from a ‘real world’ district general cohort
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 133 Lower complication rates with MicraTPS versus transvenousVVI pacemakers; a single centre experience
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 134 Implantable cardioverter defibrillator use in octogenarians
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 136 Cardiac resynchronization pacing in patients with chronic heart failure
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 137 Do octogenarians tolerate CRT-P insertion?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 138 Failure of timely referral to acute in-hospital heart failure services
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 139 Day-case device implantation- a prospective single-centre experience including patient satisfaction data
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 140 A retrospective study to assess feasibility of daycase complex device insertion
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 141 Remote monitoring of ILRs, when is more too much?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 142 Do atrial high rate episodes <6 minutes in duration in pacemaker patients increase stroke risk?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 143 AV delay optimisation in patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 144 Implantable cardiac monitors (ICM): quality assurance audit outcomes of an innovative specialist nurse led service.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 145 Remote monitoring of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: can usage be predicted at a UK tertiary centre?
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 146 The prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in patients more than 65 years with persistent AF and the impact of AF intervention on sleep scores AT 6 month follow-up
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 147 Service evaluation: to identify how Plymouth NHS trust statistics for primary and secondary ICD and CRT-D intervention comply with NICE guidelines and compare with national statistics.
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 148 The sawtooth EKG pattern of typical atrial flutter is not related to differences in conduction velocity around the flutter circuit
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 14 Primary care based opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation increases detection rates
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 15 Early prolonged ambulatory cardiac monitoring in stroke (EPACS) – an open-label randomised controlled trial
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 149 Arrhythmia alliance patient survey: device related infection in implanted cardiac electronic devices
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 150 Not narrow, not wide: a 15 year old with recurrent episodes of tachyarrhythmia
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 151 A profile of a UK paediatric population with postural tachycardia syndrome
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 16 Left atrial appendage occlusion in patients meeting the “commissioning through evaluation” eligibility criteria: high all-cause mortality seen in spite of successful device implant
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 17 Atrial arrhythmia detection by implantable loop recorder in patients with and without previous stroke; implications for investigating patients with unexplained ischaemic stroke
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 18 Assessment of cardiac arrhythmias at extreme high altitude using an implantable cardiac monitor: REVEAL HA Study
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 19 Clinical outcomes of cardiac resynchronization therapy with or without defibrillation in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy: impact of left ventricular midwall fibrosis
Date: 05/10/2017

Title: 20 A multi-centre UK clinical experience with wireless intracardiac left ventricular endocardial stimulation for delivery of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (WiSE CRT).

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