https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(09)00562-1/pdf

Transvenous Lead Extraction: Heart Rhythm Society Expert Consensus on Facilities, Training, Indications, and Patient Management: This document was endorsed by the American Heart Association (AHA)

https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/files/54164678/Gregory_et_al_Antithromotic_therapy_for_atrial_Chest_2018.pdf

Antithrombotic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report

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2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy.

2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapyDeveloped by the Task Force on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) With the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journals/hrthm/hrt00912001524.pdf

2012 EHRA/HRS expert consensus statement on cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure : implant and follow-up recommendations and management

https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(06)02218-1/pdf

Transseptal endocardial left ventricular pacing: an alternative technique for coronary sinus lead placement in cardiac resynchronization therapy.

https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(15)00428-2/pdf

New-generation atrial antitachycardia pacing (Reactive ATP) is associated with reduced risk of persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation in patients with bradycardia: Results from the MINERVA randomized multicenter international trial

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is a rare but serious complication after pacemaker implantation. This report describes three cases of SVC syndrome treated with venoplasty and venous stenting, with an average follow-up of 30.7 (±3.1) months. These cases illustrate that the definitive diagnosis, and the extent and location of venous obstruction, can only be determined by venography.

Treatment of Pacemaker-Induced Superior Vena Cava Syndrome by Balloon Angioplasty and Stenting

Background. Mechanical dyssynchrony has proven to be superior to QRS duration in predicting response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). Whether time to peak longitudinal strain delay between the mid-septum and mid-lateral left ventricular wall better predicts CRT response than tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is unclear. This study compares the value of the two methods for the assessment of mechanical dyssynchrony and prediction of CRT responders. Methods. 66 clinical responders and 17 nonresponders to CRT with severe systolic heart failure (LVEF 130 ms with left bundle branch block were evaluated by peak longitudinal strain and TDI. Doppler echocardiograms and electromechanical time delay (EMD) intervals were acquired before and after pacemaker implantation. Results. In all responders EMD measured by peak longitudinal strain was >60 ms before implantation, compared with 76% of the patients measured by TDI. Nonresponders had EMD 60 ms. Peak longitudinal strain delay appears to be superior to TDI to predict the response to CRT. (Neth Heart J 2010;18:574–82.)

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Mike G. Scheffer

Papers

Transseptal endocardial left ventricular pacing: an alternative technique for coronary sinus lead placement in cardiac resynchronization therapy.

New-generation atrial antitachycardia pacing (Reactive ATP) is associated with reduced risk of persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation in patients with bradycardia: Results from the MINERVA randomized multicenter international trial

Treatment of Pacemaker-Induced Superior Vena Cava Syndrome by Balloon Angioplasty and Stenting

Peak longitudinal strain delay is superior to TDI in the selection of patients for resynchronisation therapy.