Andrzej Lubiński

TL;DR: Extending device longevity has an important effect on the long-term cost of device therapy, both for ICD and CRT-D, which has important implications for device choice.

TL;DR: Focusing on improving factors including local reimbursement of CRT, the existence of national guidelines, and a high number of conventional implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantations may increase the availability ofCRT in countries where it is currently underutilized.

TL;DR: periodic repolarisation dynamics predict mortality reductions associated with prophylactic implantation of ICDs in contemporarily treated patients with ischaemic or non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy and could help to guide treatment decisions about prophyllactic ICD implantation.

TL;DR: A comprehensive, tabulated review of published literature on the prevalence of atrial high-rate episodes and their impact on risk of stroke in patients with AHRE and in patients without AHRE, found that oral anticoagulation has the potential to reduce stroke risk but is associated with a rate of major bleeding of 2%/year.

TL;DR: Dofetilide was as efficacious as sotalol in preventing the induction of sustained ventricular tachycardia and well tolerated during the long term with no statistically significant difference in the adverse events.