Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy is clearly an effective therapy for selected
patients in definable populations. The benefits and risks of ICD therapy are directly impacted …

Background Multicenter studies 1– 3 demonstrate that unnecessary implanted cardioverter
defibrillator (ICD) shocks can be reduced by evidence-based programming of detection rate …

Electrical communication between cardiomyocytes can be perturbed during arrhythmia, but
these perturbations are not captured by conventional electrocardiographic metrics. We …

BACKGROUND: The clinical importance of the J-point elevation on electrocardiogram is
controversial. OBJECTIVE: To study intracardiac J-point amplitude before ventricular …

BACKGROUND: Prediction of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation
(VF) could help to guide preventive interventions in at-risk patients. The QRST integral (∫ …

This paper presents information and communication system technological development
towards personalized and pervasive healthcare systems. In the recent years, information …

The spatiotemporal characteristics of cardiac fibrillation are often investigated by using
indices extracted from the spectrum of cardiac signals. However different signal acquisition …

The implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) is important therapy for the prevention of
sudden death. These devices provide detailed information about the rate and morphology of …

We constructed an intracardiac vectorcardiogram from 3 configurations of intracardiac
cardiovertor defibrilator (ICD) electrograms (EGMs). Six distinctive 3 lead combinations were …

An editorial is presented on therapy for ventricular tachycardia (VT). It examines
nonnegligible incidence of serious complications to obtain epicardial access for VT mapping …