Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, editor-in-chief with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Danielle Haanschoten, Hein Wellens and Associates aim to examine survival benefit of prophylactic implantable cardioversion defibrillator (ICD) implantation in early selected high-risk patients with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-elevation myocardial...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, editor-in-chief with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Bruce Wilkoff and associates evaluated antibacterial envelope cost effectiveness compared to standard of care infection prevention strategies in the US healthcare system. Decision tree model was used to compare costs and outcomes of the antimicrobial envelope used...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor-in-chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Zak Loring and associates examined 3,139 patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, between 2016 and 2018 in the Get With The Guidelines-Atrial Fibrillation Registry from 24 US centers. Patients undergoing AF ablation were predominantly male (63.9%) and...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the BEAT, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor in Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. Paul J. Wang: Albert Feeny and Associates used unsupervised machine learning of electrocardiogram [ECG] waveforms to identify cardiac resynchronization therapy [CRT] subgroups to differentiate outcomes beyond QRS duration and left bundle branch block. They retrospectively analyzed 946 CRT...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast! On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief. With some of the key highlights from this month's issue. Paul J. Wang: In our first paper, Demilade Adedinsewo and associates assess the accuracy of an artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram [AI-ECG] to identify patients presenting with dyspnea who have left ventricular LV systolic function (defined as LV ejection fraction ≤35%) in the...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.   In our first paper, Vivek Reddy and associates studied a novel, 7.5, French lattice tip catheter with the compressible 9 mm nitinol tip that is able to deliver either focal radio frequency ablation [RFA] or pulsed field ablation [PFA], 2 to 5 second lesions. In a 3 center, single-arm,...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Bruce Wilkoff and associates examine the impact of cardiac implantable electronic device [CIED] infections on mortality, quality of life, healthcare utilization, and cost in the U.S. Healthcare system. They found that the majority CIED infection was associated with...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.   In our first paper, David Okada and associates assess the ability of a novel machine learning approach for quantifying 3D spatial complexity of gray scale patterns on late gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance images to predict ventricular arrhythmias in patients with ischemic...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat for circulation, arrhythmia, and electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, Editor In Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.   Elizabeth Wang and Associates examined the relationship between acute precipitants of atrial fibrillation and long-term recurrence of atrial fibrillation, AF, from a multi-institutional, longitudinal electronic medical record database. Among 10,723 patients with newly diagnosed Afib, age...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Ling Kuo and associates examine the association between left atrial high-resolution late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance and electrogram abnormalities in patients with atrial fibrillation or AF. They found that in 40 AF patients age 63.2 years with a mean...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor in chief with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper in the real time mapping of AF drivers RADAR study, Subbarao Choudry and associates examined in a single arm first in human investigator-initiated FDA IDE study, a novel system for real time, high resolution identification of atrial fibrillation, AF drivers, in persistent or...

Paul J. Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Jacob Koruth and Associates examine the ability to produce ablation lesions using pulse field ablation, which is tissue specific and non-thermal in swine compared to radio frequency ablation. All 46 targeted veins were successfully isolated on the first attempt in all cohorts....

Dr Paul Wang: Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Leroy Joseph and associates examined whether an increase in dietary saturated fat could lead to abnormalities of calcium homeostasis and heart rhythm, by an NADPH oxidase 2, NOX2-dependent mechanism. In mice on high fat diets, they found that saturated fat activates NOX,...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first paper, in a single‐center observational cohort study, Owen Donnellan and Associates compared arrhythmia recurrence rates in morbidly obese patients who underwent prior bariatric surgery, with those of non-obese...

Dr Wang:             Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                 In our first paper, Ying Tian and associates examine the effects and long-term outcomes of percutaneous stellate ganglion blockade in the setting of drug refractory electrical storm due to ventricular arrhythmia. They studied 30 consecutive patients over...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first paper, Mark McCauley, Flavia Vitale and associates report that carbon nanotube fibers may improve impaired myocardial conduction. In three sheep, radiofrequency ablation was used to create epicardial conduction...

Paul Wang:         Welcome to the monthly podcast On The Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue. In our first paper, Moo-Nyun Jin, Tae-Hoon Kim, and associates examined the 1-year serial changes in cognitive function, with or without atrial fibrillation catheter ablation. They used the Montreal cognitive assessment score in 308 patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation, the...

Dr. Wang:            Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr. Paul Wong, editor-in-chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                 In our first paper, Jeremy Wasserlauf and associates compare the accuracy of an atrial fibrillation sensing smartwatch with simultaneous recordings from an insertable cardiac monitor.                                 The authors use smart rhythm 2.0, a...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor-in-chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first article, Daniel Alyesh, Konstantinos Siontis and associates described myocardial calcifications in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy undergoing ventricular tachycardia ablation in comparison to a control group...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor in Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first paper Lucas Boersma and associates examined the final two-year outcome data from 47 centers, in 1,020 patients receiving the left atrial appendage occlusion watchman devices. Their study population had a mean age of...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast "On the Beat" for Circulation: Arrhythmia, and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor-in Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 In our first manuscript, Marie Bayer Elming and associates, examined whether the right ventricular ejection fraction can identify patients with non-ischemic systolic heart failure, more likely to benefit from ICD implantation....

Dr Paul Wong:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast on the beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wong, Editor-in Chief with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 This month's issue is dedicated to a new exciting topic, His bundle pacing. His bundle pacing is designed to achieve a more physiological human dynamic response than right ventricular pacing alone, which may be needed in patients...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat, for Circulation: Arrhythmia, and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, Editor-in-Chief, with some of the key highlights from this month's issue.                                                 Koji Miyamoto and associates conducted the AD-Balloon Study, which investigates the ideal number of free cycles during second-generation cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation. In a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical...

Dr Paul Wang:                   Welcome to the monthly podcast, On the Beat for Circulation: Arrhythmia, and Electrophysiology. I'm Dr Paul Wang, editor in chief, with some of the key highlights for this month's issue.                                                 In our first paper, Pasquale Vergara and Associates develop a predictive risk score to assess the outcome of ventricular tachycardia ablation creating what they call the IVT score. The authors examined 16 demographics, clinical,...