Angelo Branzi

TL;DR: Today the approach to SCD prevention includes considering both the setting of patients who have already presented a cardiac arrest or a malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias (secondary preventions of SCD) and the much broader setting of primary prevention in patients at variable degrees of identifiable risk.

TL;DR: In this study, RSC for the treatment of STEMI was associated with increased rates of reperfusion and reduction of long-term mortality.

TL;DR: Cardiac resynchronization by BiV pacing provides acute/medium-term improvements in cardiac index and sudden, medium-term failure of LV stimulation can lead to an even more pronounced haemodynamic derangement than that inducible by RV pacing at baseline.

TL;DR: AF duration was the most powerful predictor of ADFT and should be considered when planning internal CV of AF to limit the number of shocks delivered and long intervals between AF onset and CV should be avoided.

TL;DR: Delivery of biphasic asymmetrical shocks results in lower leading edge voltage of effective shocks and better patients tolerability compared with conventional biphaic symmetrical shocks, and these findings are of interest both for transvenous internal cardioversion of chronic persistent AF and for implantable atrial defibrillators.