August 18th, 2010
Nay Fellow Way?
Westby G Fisher, MD
It was to be a routine pacemaker.
The parties assembled. The room prepped. IV started. Chest scrubbed. Antibiotics given. His nervous eyes raised when he saw me before the procedure, relieved at the sight of at least one familiar face.
August 13th, 2010
Al Fine
Westby G Fisher, MD
CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from Dr. Westby Fisher, an electrophysiologist practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. This piece originally appeared on his blog, Dr. Wes. “The family wants the pacemaker turned off.” “We don’t typically turn them off.” “They want it off.” “It’s […]
August 2nd, 2010
When in Rome…
John Mandrola, MD, FACC
CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from Dr. John M, a blog by private-practice electrophysiologist and CardioExchange member, Dr. John Mandrola. In the quiet of the exam room, the patient’s cell phone obnoxiously chimes to life. “Hold on a minute Doc, I’ve been expecting this text.” You think, but dare not say, “You are kidding me, right?” This […]
July 15th, 2010
Arrhythmias in the Real World 2010
Larry Husten, PHD
Washington, DC
May 26th, 2010
Do Hundreds of Left Atrial Burns Reduce Dementia Risk?
John Mandrola, MD, FACC
CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from Dr. John M, a blog by private-practice electrophysiologist and CardioExchange member, Dr. John Mandrola. “No data are better than bad data…If you can’t see it, don’t call it,” Dr Feigenbaum often admonished us young fellows during the old Thursday Echo conference at IU. Calling more than is actually there seems […]
May 12th, 2010
Gust Bardy Answers Questions About the Entirely Subcutaneous ICD
gusthbardy and Larry Husten, PHD
Earlier today, at the annual meeting of the Heart Rhythm Society in Denver, Dr. Gust Bardy presented the initial experience with a promising new device, an entirely subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD). The paper was published simultaneously online in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Bardy graciously agreed to answer questions about the device from the […]
March 24th, 2010
Freezing in AF Ablation—Not So Fast, You All
John Mandrola, MD, FACC
CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from Dr. John M, a blog by private-practice electrophysiologist and CardioExchange member, Dr. John Mandrola. Freezing the heart is in the news. The STOP-AF trial was presented at ACC, and it sure has generated much excitement about atrial fibrillation ablation. This is a good thing. However, as is […]
February 17th, 2010
Which Strategy for Severe Calcific Aortic Stenosis?
Anju Nohria, MD and James Fang, MD
The patient is a 72-year-old man with a history of ischemic cardiomyopathy (LV ejection fraction, 30%–35%) and NYHA class II/III heart-failure symptoms at baseline. Over the previous month, he had experienced recurrent episodes of volume overload and sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) requiring intravenous diuretics and up-titration of his amiodarone therapy. He then presented in VT […]
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