Jacqueline Joza

TL;DR: The primary finding is that PVI performed with a wide antral approach is more effective than ostial PVI in achieving freedom from total atrial tachyarrhythmia recurrence at long-term follow-up.

TL;DR: Substrate-guided ablation is an effective approach in the treatment of VT with long-term outcome directly related to acute procedural success, and success rates are significantly lower in patients with NIDCM compared with those with ICM.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature identified 106 articles that investigated the presence of LAA thrombi in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) patients as mentioned in this paper, and classified the articles according to topic and reported on: (1) risk factors; (2) diagnostic imaging modalities; (3) prevention strategies before cardioversion; (4) prevention strategy before AF ablation; and (5) management of detected LAA Thrombi.

TL;DR: The uptake of AF ablation over 10 years has expanded, with an increasingly greater number of older patients and with increased presence of comorbidities; however, there has been no increase in the relatively low proportion of women undergoingAF ablation.

TL;DR: Most Canadian centres perform device implantation with NOAC interruption without the use of bridging, and the timing of stopping and restarting anticoagulation and incidence of bleeding complications is variable.