VT ablation: New Developments and Approaches

Epidemiology of the dementias: recent developments and new approaches.

A Questionable Indication For ICD Extraction After Successful VT Ablation.

Sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias represent a kind of complication shared by a number of clinical presentations of heart disease, sometimes leading to sudden cardiac death. Many efforts have been made in the fight against such a complication, mainly being represented by the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). In recent years, catheter ablation has grown as a means to effectively ...

Assessing epicardial substrate using intracardiac echocardiography during VT ablation.

BACKGROUND Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has played a limited role in defining the substrate for ventricular tachycardia (VT). The purpose of this study was to assess whether ICE could identify abnormal epicardial substrate in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) and VT. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 18 patients with NICM and recurrent VT who had abnormal echogenicity identi...

Traditional androgen ablation approaches to advanced prostate cancer: new insights.

INTRODUCTION Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a mature therapy for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer, and yet despite many years of use, there is still much about its use, side effects, efficacy, and outcomes for which the urology community does not have answers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A literature search was performed to review ADT use in the modern era, specifically examining ad...

Journal Roundup: Recent Developments in Tumor Ablation

Journal Roundup: Recent Developments in Tumor Ablation June 08, 2005 | Tumor Ablation [1] Journal articles published since the beginning of this year look at new treatment modalities, provide more evidence of ablation’s efficacy, and identify potential complications. Imaging technologies and combination therapies are also covered. */ Journal articles published since the beginning of this year l...