To assess the effect of intracardiac blood flow pulsatility on tissue and distributions during radiofrequency (RF) cardiac ablation (RFCA).A three-dimensional computer model was used to simul...

Objective: The significance of intracardiac echogenic focus (ICEF) in the fetal period is controversial. We conducted current study to determine whether ICEF affects risk cardiac malformation or anomaly fetus.

saline solution bolus via a central venous catheter, a thermistor-tipped arterial catheter (usually femoral) is connected to a specific monitor (PiCCOplus; Pulsion Medical Systems; Munich, Germany), which records the downstream temperature changes, ie, a transpulmonary thermodilution curve. The mathematical analysis of the curve allows the computation of cardiac output, heart blood volume (glob...

In this article, on page 204, the title has been spelled incorrectly: " MEALS " should have appeared as " MELAS ". The title should be corrected as the following: from " A Case of Myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like Epicodes (MEALS) Syndrome with Intracardiac Thrombus " to " A Case of Myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like Epicodes (MELAS) Syndrome with ...

A patient with a rare intracardiac tumor arising from the right side of the interventricular septum who developed conduction disturbances and symptoms of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction is reported. The patient was successfully treated with insertion of a permanent pacemaker and surgical removal of the tumor after two-dimensional echocardiography diagnosed the intracardiac mass. Pat...

Papillary muscles (PMs) were reported to be origin of ventricular arrhythmia (VA). Radiofrequency (RF) ablation was reported to be acutely effective in eliminating VA. However, the recurrence rate is high. Recently, cryoablation guided by intracardiac echocardiography, 3-dimensional mapping system, and image integration was introduced as alternative strategy for this challenging ablation. We pr...