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Arrhythmias and Clinical EP - Scientific Session

Session #602

Syncope: Case Study Based Learning

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Room 1B

CME Hours: 1.5 /CNE Hours: 1.5

Co-Chair: Omar Razali

Co-Chair: Paul Zei

Panelist: Suneet Mittal

Panelist: S. Adam Strickberger

Panelist: Heather M. Ross

8:00 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: My 82 Year-Old Male Patient Presented With Syncope;

He Has Stable Angina, HTN, DM, OSA, and RBBB on EKG

Michael W. Rich

Saint Louis, MO

8:05 a.m.

Panel Discussion

8:15 a.m.

Question and Answer

8:30 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: My 32 Year-Old Female College Student Has

Palpitations, Dizziness, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath and Syncope

Brian Olshansky

Iowa City, IA

8:35 a.m.

Panel Discussion

8:45 a.m.

Question and Answer

9:00 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: My 18 Year-Old Female High School Student Presented

With Syncope and QTC 490 ms

Andrew D. Krahn

Vancouver, Canada

9:05 a.m.

Panel Discussion

9:15 a.m.

Question and Answer

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP - Poster Contributions

Session #1114

Epidemiology of Arrhythmias and Arrhythmia Syndromes

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poster Hall B1


231 - Association of Arrhythmias with Outcomes in Patients with

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: An Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient

Sample 2003-2011

Prakash Harikrishnan, Tanush Gupta, Dhaval Kolte, Chandrasekar

Palaniswamy, Sahil Khera, Wilbert Aronow, Marjan Mujib, Nivas

Balasubramaniyam, Diwakar Jain, Sachin Sule, Gregg Fonarow, Ali Ahmed,

Howard Cooper, Jason Jacobson, Sei Iwai, Julio Panza, New York Medical

College, Valhalla, NY, USA

232 - Burden of Arrhythmias in Patients with Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy:

Findings from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2003-2011

Prakash Harikrishnan, Tanush Gupta, Dhaval Kolte, Chandrasekar

Palaniswamy, Sahil Khera, Wilbert Aronow, Marjan Mujib, Kathir

Subramanian, Diwakar Jain, Sachin Sule, Gregg Fonarow, Ali Ahmed, Howard

Cooper, Jason Jacobson, Sei Iwai, Julio Panza, New York Medical College,

Valhalla, NY, USA

233 - Incidence and Prognostic Significance of New Onset Atrial

Fibrillation/Flutter in Patients with a First Episode of Acute Pericarditis: A

Prospective Cohort Study

Massimo Imazio, George Lazaros, Elisa Picardi, Dimitris Tousoulis, Riccardo

Belli, Cardiology Dpt. Maria Vittoria Hospital and University of Torino, Torino,

Italy, Department of Cardiology, University of Athens Medical School,

Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

234 - Underutilization of Therapeutic Hypothermia after Sudden Cardiac

Arrest in United States: A 10 Year Perspective

Neeraj Shah, Vratika Agarwal, Jalaj Garg, Kathan Mehta, Nainesh Patel,

Ronald Freudenberger, Larry Jacobs, Lehigh Valley Health Network,

Allentown, PA, USA

235 - Arrhythmia Burden Among Community Dwelling Elderly Using Two

Weeks of Ambulatory ECG Recordings

Sunil K. Agarwal, Lin Chen, Alvaro Alonso, Faye Lopez, Elsayed Soliman,

Chiadi Ndumele, Laura Loehr, Larisa Tereshchenko, Hugh Calkins, Gerardo

Heiss, Josef Coresh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

236 - Mayo Registry for Telemetry Efficacy in Arrest (MR TEA) Study: An

Assessment of the Utility of Telemetry in Predicting Clinical Decompensation

David Snipelisky, Jordan Ray, Gautam Matcha, Archana Roy, Dana Harris,

Veronica Bosworth, Adrian Dumitrascu, Brooke Clark, Tyler Vadeboncoeur,

Fred Kusumoto, Colleen Thomas, Michael Heckman, M. C. Burton, Mayo

Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

237 - Burden of Arrhythmias in Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Nishi Shah, Yogita Rochlani, Naga Venkata Pothineni, Hakan Paydak,

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

238 - Catheter Ablation of Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome: 14-Year Trends

in Utilization and Complications in the United States

Jalaj Garg, Neeraj Shah, Kathan Mehta, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, Babak

Bozorgnia, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, USA





Session #1115

What's Going On in the World of Atrial Fibrillation?


Poster Hall B1


239 - Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Device and Novel Oral Anticoagulants

versus Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: A

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials

David Felipe Briceno, Pedro Villablanca Spinetto, Nicole Cyrille, Daniele

Massera, Eric Bader, Eric Manheimer, Philip Aagaard, Kevin Ferrick, Jay Gross,

Soo Gyum Kim, Andrew Krumerman, Eugen Palma, Nils Guttenplan, John

Fisher, Mario Garcia, Andrea Natale, Luigi Di Biase, Montefiore Medical

Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, Texas Cardiac

Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA

240 - Detection of Left Atrial and Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus by Cardiac

Magnetic Resonance in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Vein Isolation

Danai Kitkungvan, Faisal Nabi, Mohamed Ghosn, Amish Dave, Miguel

Valderrabano, William Zoghbi, Dipan Shah, Houston Methodist Hospital,

Houston, TX, USA

241 - Independent Correlates of Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Atrial

Fibrillation

Kasra Moazzami, Shadi Kalantarian, Kallirroi Retzepi, Nathaniel A. Reynolds,

Randy L. Gollub, Jeremy Ruskin, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts

General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Athinoula A Martinos Center for

Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General H,

Charlestown, MA, USA

242 - Serum Galectin-3 Level Predicts Recurrence Following Successful

Electrical Cardioversion in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Patients

Kadri Gurses, Muhammed Yalcin, Duygu Kocyigit, Hande Canpinar, Banu

Evranos, Hikmet Yorgun, Levent Sahiner, Ergun Baris Kaya, Giray Kabakci, Lale

Tokgozoglu, Necla Ozer, Dicle Guc, Kudret Aytemir, Hacettepe University

Faculty of Medicine Department of Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey, Cancer

Institute Basic Oncology Department Hacettepe University Faculty of

Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

243 - Understanding Sex Differences in Patient Characteristics and Symptom

Presentation in Patients Admitted with Heart Failure Complicated by Atrial

Fibrillation: A Get With the Guidelines - Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) Study

Mitra Daneshvar, Nayan Desai, Matthew Ortman, John Andriulli, Andrea

Russo, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

244 - Frequency and Predictors of Pacemaker Implantation After Catheter

Ablation or Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation

Peter Noseworthy, Abhishek Deshmukh, Haas Lindsey, Van Houten Holly,

Schilz Sara, Nilay Shah, Suraj Kapa, Paul Friedman, Douglas Packer, Samuel

Asirvatham, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

245 - Electrophysiological Implications of Left Atrial Wall Thickness Related to

Complex Fractionated Electrogram, Voltage and Cycle Length

Junbeom Park, Chul Hwan Park, Jin-Kyu Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Hui-Nam Pak,

Moon-Houng Lee, Boyoung Joung, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul,

South Korea

246 - Left Atrial Appendage Ligation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Leads

to a Decrease in Atrial Dispersion

Nitish Badhwar, Mitsuharu Kawamura, Melvin Scheinman, Randall Lee, UCSF,

San Fransico, CA, USA

247 - Association Between Left Ventricular Diastolic Wall Strain and

Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Catheter Ablation of

Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Takashi Kanda, Masaharu Masuda, Akihiro Sunaga, Masashi Fujita, Osamu

Iida, Shin Okamoto, Takayuki Ishihara, Kiyonori Nanto, Tatsuya Shiraki,

Takuya Tsujimura, Yasuhiro Matsuda, Shota Okuno, Koji Yanaka, Masaaki

Uematsu, Kansai Rosai Hospital, Amagasaki, Japan

248 - Palpation of Intra-Cardiac Blood Flow, Pressure, Contact Force and

Motor Reaction Time of Subjects Using a Novel Haptic Feedback System

Stuart Schecter, Wei Lin, Li Liu, Aasha Gopal, State University of New York at

Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

249 - Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Poses a Large but Transient Increase in

Ischemic Stroke Risk: A Case-Crossover Study

Daniel Singer, Paul Ziegler, Susan Schmitt, Yuchiao Chang, Jun Fan, Claire T.

Than, Mintu Turakhia, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General

Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System,

Palo Alto, CA, USA

250 - Incidence and One Year Outcome of Perioperative Atrial Arrhythmia in

the Elderly following Hip Fracture Surgery

Bhanu Gupta, Rachel C. Steckelberg, Lisa Kirkland, Dirk Larson, Paul

Huddleston, R. Scott Wright, Jeanne Huddleston, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,

MN, USA

251 - Relationship Between Reduction of Systolic Blood Pressure and Atrial

Fibrillation Burden After Renal Denervation and Pulmonary Vein Isolation

Evgeny Pokushalov, Alexander Romanov, Demosthenes Katritsis, Artem

Strelnikov, Sergey Artyomenko, Denis Losik, Vera Baranova, Alexander

Karaskov, Jonathan Steinberg, Dejan Risteski, State Research Institute of

Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

252 - Fetal SVT and Postnatal Outcomes: A Collaborative Multi-Institutional

Study

Kevin Hinkle, Shabnam Peyvandi, Corey Stiver, Stacy Stratemann Killen,

Susan Etheridge, Michael Puchalski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT,

USA

253 - Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracic Radiotherapy for Cancer: Examining

Differences in Clinical Characteristics at Time of Diagnosis Compared with the

General Population

Vaibhav Vaidya, Jackson Liang, Terence Sio, Stephen Cha, Vuyisile Nkomo,

Rowlens Melduni, Hon-Chi Lee, Robert Miller, Samuel Asirvatham, Mayo

Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

254 - Risks of Long-Term Mortality and Major Adverse Cardio-Vascular Events

Associated with Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Hospitalized for Atrial

Fibrillation

George Tsoukas, Claudia Blais, Roxanne Gagnon, Denis Hamel, Mark

Sherman, Natasha Garfield, Vidal Essebag, Thao Huynh, McGill Health

University Center, Montreal, Canada, Institute of Public Health, Quebec,

Canada





Session #1116

Contemporary Challenges in Cardiac Implantable Device

Management


Poster Hall B1


255 - The Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Extraction of Infected

Cardiac Implantable Electrophysiological Devices

Mohamed Faher Almahmoud, Joel Fishbain, Hussein Othman, Salah Sabbagh,

Susan Szpunar, St. John Hospital Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA

256 - Utility of Intracardiac Echocardiography in Setting of Cardiac Device-

Related Endocarditis and Lead Extraction

Aswin Mathew, Parshva Patel, Ashwani Gupta, Joshua Grant, Heath

Saltzman, Andrew Kohut, Steven Kutalek, Drexel University College of

Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

257 - Extracting versus Abandoning Sterile Non-Functional or Recalled Leads

Shasank Rijal, Rashmee Shah, Samir Saba, University of Pittsburgh Medical

Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

258 - Safety and Efficacy of Subcutaneous Implantable-Cardioverter

Defibrillator Implantation: A Single Center Experience

Eduard Koman, Ashwani Gupta, Faiz Subzposh, Ankur Tiwari, John Fontaine,

Slawomir Kusmirek, Steven Kutalek, Heath Saltzman, Drexel University

College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Hahnemann University Hospital,

Philadelphia, PA, USA

259 - Outcomes of Temporary Active-Fixation Lead Implantation After

Transvenous Lead Extraction in Pacemaker Dependent Patients

Eduard Koman, Ashwani Gupta, Faiz Subzposh, David Fridman, James

McCaffrey, Heath Saltzman, Steven Kutalek, Drexel University College of

Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia,

PA, USA

260 - Transvenous Lead Extraction Can Be Performed Successfully in Older

Children and Young Adults

Eduard Koman, Ashwani Gupta, Faiz Subzposh, David Fridman, James

McCaffrey, Heath Saltzman, Steven Kutalek, Drexel University College of

Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Hahnemann University Hospital,


263 - Is Less More? Benefits of a New Single-Chamber ICD with Atrial Sensing

Compared with Dual-Chamber ICD

Obiora Maludum, Percy Balderia, Yolanda Nixon, Bernadette Sheeron, Jessica

Smukler, Kamal Joshi, Allan Greenspan, Sumeet Mainigi, Albert Einstein

Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

264 - Permanent Device Implantation Using the Transfemoral Route

Srinivas Rajsheker, Elsayed Abo-Salem, Jitender Munjal, Alexandru Costea,

Mehran Attari, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH,

USA

265 - Clinical Safety of the ProMRI Pacemaker System in Pacemaker

Implanted Patients Subjected to 1.5T Cardiac or Thoracic Spine MRI Scanning

William Bailey, Theofanie Mela, Alexander Mazur, Lawrence Rosenthal, The

ProMRI Investigators, Louisiana Heart Rhythm Specialists, Lafayette, LA, USA

266 - Safety of Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Laser Lead Extraction Seven Years

After Food and Drug Administration Recall

Nayan Desai, Jad Skaf, Muhammad Mustafa, Matthew Ortman, Andrea

Russo, John Andriulli, Cooper University Hospital and Cooper Medical School

of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

267 - The Indications, Safety and Efficacy of Temporary Transvenous Pacing

in a Large Tertiary Center Coronary Care Unit

Michael Hoosien, Daniel Sedehi, Venu Menon, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,

Cleveland, OH, USA

268 - Temporal Trends in and Factors Associated with Single Versus Dual Coil

Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads: Data from the NCDR ICD

Registry

Sean Pokorney, Craig Parzynski, James Daubert, Donald Hegland, Paul

Varosy, Jeptha Curtis, Sana Al-Khatib, Duke Clinical Research Institute,

Durham, NC, USA, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP - Moderated Poster Contributions

Session #1129M

Controversies in Clinical Arrhythmias

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP Moderated Poster Theater, Poster Hall

B1

CME Hours: 2 /CNE Hours: 2

ACC Poster Moderator: Elad Anter

ACC Poster Moderator: Paul J. Wang

10:00 a.m.

Externalization of Conductor Cables in QuickSite and QuickFlex Left

Ventricular Leads

Madhu Reddy, Moustapha Atoui, Jayasree Pillarisetti, Sampath Gunda,

Donita Atkins, Sudharani Bommana, Pramod Janga, Raghuveer Dendi, Rhea

Pimentel, Martin Emert, Loren Berenbom, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, University

Of Kansas Hospitals and Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

10:10 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:15 a.m.

Electrical Remodeling and Clinical Outcomes After Left Atrial Appendage

Ligation and Catheter Ablation in Patients with Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Nitish Badhwar, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Mitsuharu Kawamura, Sivaraman

Iyer, Randall Lee, University of California, San Francisco, San Fancisco, CA,

USA

10:25 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:30 a.m.

Impact of Quadripolar Left Ventricular Leads on Intraprocedural and Long

Term Outcomes: Results from a Prospective Registry

Madhu Reddy, Arun Kanmanthareddy, Sampath Gunda, Jayasree Pillarisetti,

Sandeep Koripelli, Sudharani Bommana, Donita Atkins, Dhanunjaya




Lakkireddy, University Of Kansas Hospitals and Medical Center, Kansas City,

KS, USA

10:40 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:45 a.m.

Colchicine for Prevention of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation: Meta-Analysis of

Randomized Controlled Trials

Mohsin Salih, Aiman Smer, Yansoun Elmasry, Hamza Mlatoum, Pedro

Villablanca Spinetto, St Luke's Hospital, Chesterfield, MO, USA, Creighton

University, Omaha, NE, USA

10:55 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:00 a.m.

"Silent" Atrial Fibrillation Burden in Patients with Hypertrophic

Cardiomyopathy

Ankur Kalra, Pranay Rao, Amit Sharma, Shreya Bhandari, Ross Garberich,

Deepa McGriff, Susan Casey, Raed Abdelhadi, JoEllyn Abraham, Jay Sengupta,

Barry Maron, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, MInneapolis, MN, USA

11:10 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:15 a.m.

The Role of Genetics in Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia Risk Stratification:

Primary Results from the DISCOVERY Trial

Heinrich Wieneke, Domenico Corrado, Jeff Lande, Javier Garcia Fernandez,

Jesper Svendsen, Herve Le Marec, Juan Gabriel Martinez, Sebastian

Spencker, Bernhard Strohmer, Lauri Toivonen, Winfried Siffert, St. Marien-

Hospital Mülheim, Mülheim, Germany

11:25 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:30 a.m.

Is Cooling Fable or Scientifically Justifiable: Meta-Analysis of Randomized

Control Trials

Garima Arora, Saurabh Gaba, Hemant Godara, Lorenzo Berra, Pankaj Arora,

Navkaranbir Bajaj, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL,

USA

11:40 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:45 a.m.

Augmentation of Cardiac Sympathetic Tone by Low Level Stellate Ganglion

Stimulation in Humans

Olujimi Ajijola, Kimberly Howard-Quijano, Jennifer Scovotti, Christine Lee,

Marmar Vaseghi, Aman Mahajan, Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA Cardiac

Arrhythmia Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Division of Anesthesiology, Univ of

California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:55 a.m.

Question and Answer

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP - Symposium

Session #101

The Latest Developments in Atrial Fibrillation Treatment: Joint

Symposium of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of

Cardiology I

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Federico Gentile

Co-Chair: Eric N. Prystowsky

12:15 p.m.

How Can I Use MRI Today to Better Treat My AF Patient?

Nassir F. Marrouche

12:35 p.m.

What New Technologies Can Be Used Today to Improve the Chances of a

Successful AF Ablation Procedure?

Sanjiv M. Narayan

Stanford, CA

12:55 p.m.

Can AF Be Reversed Without Medications Or Procedures?

John D. Day

Salt Lake City, UT

1:15 p.m.

What Long-Term Outcomes Can I Expect for My Patient Referred for AF

Ablation?

Hugh Calkins

Baltimore, MD

1:35 p.m.

The Four Most Important Take Away Points From This Session

Douglas L. Packer

Rochester, MN

1:40 p.m.


Eric N. Prystowsky

Indianapolis, IN


Session #1147

New Insights from the Electrocardiogram


Poster Hall B1


231 - PR Interval Prolongation Preceding In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The

Overlooked Interval

Duc H. Do, Ricardo Tiecher, Yong Bai, Xiao Hu, Noel Boyle, UCLA Cardiac

Arrhythmia Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, UCSF School of Nursing, San

Francisco, CA, USA

232 - Sinus Node Dysfunction Is Associated with Higher Left Atrial Pressure

During Sinus Rhythm than Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation




Tae-Hoon Kim, Junbeom Park, Jin-Kyu Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Boyoung Joung,

Moon-Hyoung Lee, Hui-Nam Pak, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul,

South Korea

233 - The High Prevalence and Clinical Implication of Myocardial Bridging in

Patients with Early Repolarization Pattern

Jiwon Seo, Junbeom Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Kim jong-youn, Hui-Nam Pak, Moon-

Hyoung Lee, Boyoung Joung, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul,

South Korea

234 - Optimal Measurement of the QT Interval in Patients With Tachycardia

Parin Patel, Yuliya Borovskiy, Francis Marchlinski, Rajat Deo, Hospital of the

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

235 - QTcc, A Novel Method for Correcting QT Interval for QRS Duration,

Predicts All-Cause Mortality

Parin Patel, Yuliya Borovskiy, Rajat Deo, Hospital of the University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

236 - Relation of Obesity to Ventricular Repolarization: A Meta-Analysis of

Clinical Studies

Jad Omran, Belal Firwana, Ashraf Al-Dadah, Martin Alpert, University of

Missouri Hospital and Clinics, Columbia, MO, USA

237 - Increased QT Variability Index Is Associated with Mortality in Incident

Hemodialysis Patients

Larisa G. Tereshchenko, Sanjoli Sur, Lucy Meoni, Tejal Gambhir, Maggie Maly,

Bernard Jaar, Stephen Sozio, Michelle Estrella, Rulan Parekh, Oregon Health

and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

238 - Electrocardiographic Predictors of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Ricardo Dahmer Tiecher, Duc Do, Yong Bai, Xiao Hu, Noel Boyle, UCLA

Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, UCSF School of Nursing,

San Francisco, CA, USA

239 - Chronic Junctional Bradycardia Is a Potential Risk Factor of

Thromboembolic Events

Gwang Sil Kim, Jae-Sun Uhm, Tae-Hoon Kim, Hancheol Lee, Boyoung Joung,

Hui-Nam Pak, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Division of Cardiology, Severance

Cardiovascular Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

240 - Prognosis in Stress Cardiomyopathy Is Predicted by QTc Interval at

Presentation

Mukesh Gopalakrishnan, Sharif Nasr, Dana Villines, Abdalla Hassan, Mercy

Chandrasekaran, Lloyd Klein, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center,

Chicago, IL, USA

241 - Electrocardiographic PR Segment Depression in V1 Is Associated with

Sudden Cardiac Death in Asymptomatic Adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in

Communities Study

David German, Muammar Kabir, Elyar Ghafoori, Tor Biering-Sorensen,

Jonathan Waks, Sunil Agarwal, Dan Arking, Nona Sotoodehnia, David

Siscovick, Wendy Post, Charles Henrikson, Scott Solomon, Elsayed Soliman,

Josef Coresh, Mark Josephson, Larisa Tereshchenko, Oregon Health &

Science University, Portland, OR, USA

242 - The Poor Increase of Inferior P-Wave Amplitude During Treadmill

Exercise Predicts Sick Sinus Syndrome

Jinkyu Park, Junbeom Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Hui-Nam Pak, Moon-Hyoung Lee,

Boyoung Joung, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, South Korea


Session #1148

Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation: How Are We Doing?


Poster Hall B1


243 - The Myth of the Stable INR Patient: Results from ORBIT-AF

Sean Pokorney, DaJuanicia N. Simon, Laine Thomas, Gregg Fonarow, Peter

Kowey, Paul Chang, Daniel Singer, Jack Ansell, Rosalia Blanco, Bernard Gersh,

Kenneth Mahaffey, Elaine Hylek, Alan S. Go, Jonathan Piccini, Eric Peterson,

Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA

244 - Residual Risk of Stroke and Death in Anticoagulant Treated Incidental

Atrial Fibrillation

S. Ben Freedman, Anja Katholing, Stephan Reitbrock, Carlos Martinez,

University of Sydney Concord Dept of Cardiology and Anzac Research

Institute, Sydney, Australia, Institute for Epidemiology, Statistics and

Informatics, Frankfurt, Germany

245 - Network Meta-Analysis of Relative Efficacy and Safety of Edoxaban

versus Other Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs) Among Atrial Fibrillation

Patients with CHADS2 Score ≥ 2

Beth Sherrill, Maria Fernandez, Jianmin Wang, Xin Ye, Winghan Kwong, Bintu

Sherif, Susan Hogue, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA,

Daiichi Sankyo, Parsippany, NJ, USA

246 - Estimating the Lifetime Clinical Benefits of Apixaban versus Aspirin in

the Low Risk Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients in the US: How May

Results from AVERROES Help Improve Patient Care?

Gregory Y. H. Lip, Tereza Lanitis, Jack Mardekian, Thitima Kongnakorn,

Hemant Phatak, Paul Dorian, Uni of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular

Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

247 - Underuse of Full Dose Factor Xa Inhibition in Atrial Fibrillation: Insight

from the SPRINT-AF Registry

Milan Gupta, Narendra Singh, Michelle Tsigoulis, Mahesh Kajil, Jafna Cox,

Paul Dorian, G. B. John Mancini, Andrew C.t. Ha, CCRN, Brampton, Canada

248 - Meta-Analysis of Risk of Stroke and Thrombo-Embolism with

Rivaroxaban versus Vitamin K Antagonists in Ablation and Cardioversion of

Atrial Fibrillation

Ramez S. Nairooz, Partha Sardar, Maria Pino, Hossam Amin, Asif Sewani,

Waddah Maskoun, Hakan Paydak, University of Arkansas for Medical

Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

250 - Bleeding Risk and Major Adverse Events in Patients with Previous Ulcer

on Oral Anticoagulation Therapy: A Multicenter Study

Seung-Jun Lee, Jong-Yun Kim, Jin-Bae Kim, Min-Soo Ahn, Jae-Sun Uhm, Hui-

Nam Pak, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Jung-Hoon Sung, Boyoung Joung, Division of

Cardiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

251 - Does Antiplatelet Therapy Increase the Bleeding Events Among Patients

with Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulant in Real World?




Yoji Okamoto, Satoki Fujii, Masatomo Ozaki, Mitsuru Yoshino, Noriyuki

Ohashi, Hiroshi Tasaka, Kazushige Kadota, Kazuaki Mitsudo, Kurashiki Central

Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan

252 - Measurement of Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time Can Vary

According to Reagents in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Taking

Dabigatran

Hirokazu Kondo, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Chisato Izumi, Kazuaki Kaitani,

Toshihiro Tamura, Soichiro Enomoto, Makoto Miyake, Yodo Tamaki, Tenri

Hospital Cardiovascular Medicine, Tenri City, Japan

253 - Two Dosages Dabigatran versus Warfarin in Patients with High Risk of

Stroke and Embolism Undergoing Electrical Cardioversion with Persistent and

Long-Acting Atrial Fibrillation

Oskars Kalejs, Olga Litunenko, Maija Vikmane, Sandis Sakne, Milana

Zabunova, Aldis Strelnieks, Baiba Lurina, Iveta Sime, Marina Kovalova,

Kaspars Kupics, Aivars Lejnieks, Andrejs Erglis, P. Stradins Clinical University

Hospital, Riga, Latvia, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia

254 - Biphasic Truncated Exponential Waveform Is Superior Compared to

Pulsed Biphasic Waveform in Cardioverting Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial

Flutter: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Anders Sjørslev Schmidt, Kasper Lauridsen, Kasper Adelborg, Leif F. Bach,

Simon M. Jepsen, Nete Hornung, Charles D. Deakin, Hans Rickers, Bo Løfgren,

Clinical Research Unit, Regional Hospital of Randers, Randers, Denmark,

Research Center for Emergency Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital,

Aarhus, Denmark

255 - Periprocedural and Long Term Safety and Feasibility of Treatment with

Novel Oral Anticoagulants in Patients with Biological Valve and Atrial

Fibrillation

Luigi Di Biase, Chintan Trivedi, Prasant Mohanty, Sanghamitra Mohanty,

Carola Gianni, Rong Bai, Pasquale Santangeli, Javier Sanchez, Rodney Horton,

Patrick Hranitzky, G. Gallinghouse, Amin Al-Ahmad, Jason Zagrodzky, Richard

Hongo, Steven Hao, Salwa Beheiry, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Madhu Reddy,

Juan Viles-Gonzalez, John Burkhardt, Andrea Natale, Texas Cardiac

Arrhythmia Inst at St David's Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

256 - Effects of Regional Differences in Asia on Efficacy and Safety of

Edoxaban Compared to Warfarin: Insights from the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 Trial

Yuichi J. Shimada, Takeshi Yamashita, Yukihiro Koretsune, Tetsuya Kimura,

Kenji Abe, Shunichi Sasaki, Michele Mercuri, Christian T. Ruff, Robert P.

Giugliano, The TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,

MA, USA

257 - Direct Acting Oral Anticoagulants Are More Effective than Vitamin- K-

Antagonists for the Resolution of Established Left Atrial Thrombi in Patients

with Atrial Fibrillation

Christoph Hammerstingl, Moritz Lambers, Robert Schueler, Georg Nickenig,

Heart Centre University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

258 - Relationship of Plasma Dabigatran Concentrations and Activated Partial

Thromboplastin Time in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Daiki Shimomura, Hirokazu Kondo, Toshihiro Tamura,

Naoaki Onishi, Yodo Tamaki, Makoto Miyake, Kazuaki Kaitani, Chisato Izumi,

Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Japan


Session #1149

New Device Indications and Therapies


Poster Hall B1


259 - Assessment of European Society of Cardiology Sudden Cardiac Death

Risk Model for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Barry J. Maron, Susan Casey, Ross Garberich, Ethan J. Rowin, Martin Maron,

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Tufts

Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

260 - Cryptogenic Stroke and Underlying Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic

Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials

Muhammad Afzal, Arun Kanmanthareddy, Sampath Gunda, Donita Atkins,

Madhu Reddy, Moustapha Atoui, Jayasree Pillarisetti, Buddhadeb Dawn,

Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

261 - Diagnostic Accuracy of a Novel Mobile Application (Cardiio Rhythm) for

Detecting Atrial Fibrillation

Jeena Vaid, Ming-Zher Poh, Ahmed Saleh, Shadi Kalantarian, Yuk Kee C. Poh,

Allon Rafael, Jeremy Ruskin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,

USA

262 - The Miniaturized Reveal LINQTM Insertable Cardiac Monitoring System:

A Description of the Procedure Experience

Helmut Puererfellner, Prashanthan Sanders, Evgeny Pokushalov, Marco Di

Bacco, Tracy Bergemann, Lukas Dekker, Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN,

USA, Public Hospital Elisabethinen, Academic Teaching Center, Linz, Austria

263 - Undertreatment in Patients with Dual Chamber Pacemakers and Atrial

Fibrillation Detected

Francisco Javier Martinez-Garcia, Marta Pombo-Jimenez, Luis Antonio Iñigo-

Garcia, Antonio Esteban-Luque, Francisco Ruiz-Mateas, Hospital Costa del

Sol, Marbella, MA, Spain

264 - Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation Is Safe and Effective

Following Intracranial and Intraocular Haemorrhage

Peter Fahmy, Mathieu Lempereur, Ryan Spencer, Michael Tsang, Peter

Gooderham, Jacqueline Saw, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver,

Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

265 - Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) Comparing

Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage (Watchman Device) Closure versus

Adjusted Dose Warfarin for Stroke Prophylaxis in Non-Valvular Atrial

Fibrillation

Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Saurabh Gaba, Pankaj Arora, Mustafa Ahmed, Rajat

Kalra, Takumi Yamada, Oluseun Alli, Navin Nanda, Navin Nanda, University of

Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, Birmingham, AL, USA

266 - Point-of-Care Assessment of NOAC-Induced Anticoagulation: The Novel

Haemonetics TEG 6S System

Paul A. Gurbel, Kevin Bliden, Martin Gesheff, Adina Muresan, Carlos G.

Lopez-Espina, Paresh Shah, Eli Cohen, Gabriel Raviv, Marc Doubleday, Fowzia

Zaman, Udaya Tantry, Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research, Baltimore, MD,

USA, Coramed Technologies, Niles, IL, USA




267 - Outcomes of Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Implant in Renal Dialysis Patients

Mathew Levy, Faisal Merchant, Mary Casey, Michael Hoskins, Michael Lloyd,

Angel Leon, David DeLurgio, Abhinav Goyal, Mikhael El-Chami, Emory

University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

268 - Patients on Hemodialysis Have Worse Outcomes Compared with Non-

Dialysis Patients After Subcutaneous Implantable-Cardioverter Defibrillator

Implantation

Eduard Koman, Ashwani Gupta, Faiz Subzposh, Ankur Tiwari, John Fontaine,

Slawomir Kusmirek, Heath Saltzman, Steven Kutalek, Drexel University

College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Hahnemann University Hospital,



Session #105

The Latest Developments in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

(CIEDs): Joint Symposium of the Heart Rhythm Society and the

American College of Cardiology II

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Richard I. Fogel

Co-Chair: Andrea M. Russo

2:00 p.m.

Should Every Pacemaker Be Leadless?

Vivek Yerrapu Reddy

2:20 p.m.

Should I Refer My Patient For A Subcutaneous ICD Or a Traditional ICD?

Paul A. Friedman

Rochester, MN

2:40 p.m.

The Latest Developments in CRT Therapy

Michael Robert Gold

Charleston, SC

3:00 p.m.

Should We Ever Consider Defibrillation Threshold Testing in 2015?

Bruce L. Wilkoff

Cleveland, OH

3:20 p.m.

The Four Most Important Take Away Points from this Session

Richard I. Fogel

Carmel, IN

3:25 p.m.

The Four Most Important Take Away Points from This Session

Andrea M. Russo

Moorestown, NJ


Session #1167M

Translating Arrhythmia Mechanisms to Therapy



B1


3:45 p.m.

Novel Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Predict the Risk of Recurrence in

Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Catheter Ablation

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Prasant Mohanty, Chintan Trivedi, Luigi Di Biase,

Pasquale Santangeli, Rong Bai, Carola Gianni, John Burkhardt, G.

Gallinghouse, Javier Sanchez, Patrick Hranitzky, Amin Al-Ahmad, Rodney

Horton, Andrea Natale, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA

3:55 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:00 p.m.

Wavefront Propagation Velocities Correlate with Phosphorylation Ratios of

Connexin 43 and Fibrosis in Rodent Atria Capable of Sustaining Atrial

Fibrillation

Junaid Ahmed Zaman, Pravina M. Patel, Nicholas Peters, Imperial College,

London, United Kingdom

4:10 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:15 p.m.

Selective Late Sodium Current Inhibitor Altered Atrial Electrical Conduction

but Not Atrial Activation Pattern

Sihui Huang, Qiaomei Yang, Lu Ren, Xiaohong Wei, Lin Wu, Peking University

First Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

4:25 p.m.

Question and Answer

ACC Poster Moderator: Peng-Sheng Chen

ACC Poster Moderator: Siva Mulpuru


Session #109

The Latest Developments in Ventricular Tachycardia Treatment:

Joint Symposium of the Heart Rhythm Society and the American

College of Cardiology III

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Thomas F. Deering

Co-Chair: George F. Van Hare

4:45 p.m.

How Do I Manage the Patient With Recurrent ICD Shocks?

T. Jared Bunch




5:00 p.m.

What Imaging Studies Should I do When Evaluating the Patient With New

VT?

Kalyanam Shivkumar

Los Angeles, CA

5:15 p.m.

How Should I Program the ICD to Improve Survival?

Edwin Kevin Heist

Newton, MA

5:30 p.m.

What Long-Term Outcomes Can I Expect for My Patient Referred for VT

Ablation?

David Callans

Philadelphia, PA

5:45 p.m.


Thomas F. Deering

Atlanta, GA

5:53 p.m.


George F. Van Hare

St. Louis, MO


Session #1185

Sports, Exercise and Arrhythmias

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poster Hall B1


231 - Activities Performed During Sudden Cardiac Death Associated with

Physical Exertion in the United States Military

Samuel O. Jones, Darlene P. Smallman, Bryant J. Webber, Edward L.

Mazuchowski, Emilio Fentanes, Ann I. Scher, Joyce A. Cantrell, San Antonio

Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA, Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

232 - Etiologies of Sudden Cardiac Death Associated with Physical Exertion in

the United States Military

Samuel O. Jones, Darlene Smallman, Bryant J. Webber, Edward L.

Mazuchowski, Hugh Coke, Ann I. Scher, Joyce A. Cantrell, San Antonio

Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA, Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

233 - Prevalence of Early Repolarization in a Large Cohort of Young Adults

Ronald L. Jones, Bernard Rubal, Samuel Jones, Kevin Steel, Eddie Davenport,

Javed Nasir, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA,

Keesler Medical Center, Biloxi, MS, USA

234 - No Racial Differences in the Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness

with Incident Atrial Fibrillation: Results from The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing

Project (The FIT Project)

Waqas Qureshi, Michael Blaha, Steven Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, Mouaz Al-

Mallah, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA, King AbdulAziz Cardiac Center,

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

235 - Meta-Analysis on Association of Different Intensities of Physical Activity

with Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Prasant Mohanty, Chintan Trivedi, Luigi Di Biase, Rong

Bai, Carola Gianni, Andrea Natale, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin,

TX, USA

237 - QT Interval in Elite Athletes

Aline Iskandar, Salman Khalid, Paul Thompson, Umass Memorial Medical

Center, Worcester, MA, USA

238 - Wolff-Parkinson-White Pattern in Asymptomatic United States Air

Force Aviators: Are They Safe to Fly?

Eddie Davenport, Edwin Palileo, Karen Rupp, Samuel Jones, Rosalinda

Alvarado, Jared Haynes, United States Air Force School of Aerospace

Medicine, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA


Session #1186

What Constitutes Anti Arrhythmic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation?


Poster Hall B1


239 - Colchicine for Prevention of Post-Procedural Atrial Fibrillation: A Meta-

Analysis

Justin Z. Lee, Nirmal Singh, Jennifer Huang, Carol Howe, Gilbert Ortega, Simin

Golestani, See Wei Low, Kwan Lee, Anil Pandit, University of Arizona, Tucson,

AZ, USA, DeBakey Heart Institute, Hays, KS, USA

240 - Differences in Treatment for Patients with Heart Failure Complicated by

Atrial Fibrillation by Sex: A Get with the Guidelines- Heart Failure (GWTG-HF)

Study

Mitra Daneshvar, Nayan Desai, John Andriulli, Matthew Ortman, Andrea

Russo, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

241 - Significant Variation in Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Strategies: Insights

from the Veteran’s Health Administration

Jehu Mathew, Thomas J. Glorioso, Steven Bradley, Mintu Turakhia, Cynthia

Jackevicius, P. Michael Ho, Paul Varosy, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care

System, Denver, CO, USA

242 - Adherence to Published Guidelines in Prescribing Anti-Arrhythmic

Medications and Its Impact on Clinical Outcomes of Atrial Fibrillation

Dingxin Qin, George Leef, Mian Bilal Alam, Rohit Rattan, Muhammad Bilal

Munir, Divyang Patel, Furqan Habib Khattak, Nishit Vaghasia, Sandeep Jain,

Samir Saba, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

243 - Relaxin Suppresses Atrial Fibrillation in 24 Month Old Rats by Reversing

Atrial Fibrosis and Upregulating Sodium Channels

Brian Henry, Ashish Parikh, Divyang Patel, Jamie Haney, Charles McTiernan,

David Schwartzman, Sanjeev Shroff, Guy Salama, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

244 - Comparison of Different QT Interval Measurements in the Assessment

of QTc During Dofetilide Administration in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

N.Gurukripa Kowlgi, Arushi Khurana, Maria Theresa Santos, Salman Khalid,

Constancia Macatangay, Jeffrey Kluger, University of Connecticut,

Farmington, CT, USA, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA




245 - Reconsidering Appropriate Dofetilide Dosing in Women

Sean Pokorney, Debbie C. Yen, Kristen Campbell, Nancy Allen LaPointe, Sana

Al-Khatib, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA

246 - Atrial Fibrillation "Burden" Rather than a Single Arrhythmia Recurrence

Identifies Risk of Adverse Cardiovascular Events on Antiarrhythmic Drugs:

Further Insights from the AFFIRM Trial

Sanjeev Saksena, April Slee, Marwan Saad, Rangadham Nagarakanti,

Electrophysiology Research Foundation, Warren, NJ, USA

247 - J-Shaped Relationship between Resting Heart Rate and Mortality in

Patients with Permanent AF: Results from the Outcomes Registry for Better

Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF)

Benjamin Steinberg, Sunghee Kim, Laine Thomas, Gregg Fonarow, Bernard

Gersh, Fredrik Holmqvist, Elaine Hylek, Peter Kowey, Kenneth Mahaffey,

Gerald Naccarelli, James Reiffel, Paul Chang, Eric Peterson, Jonathan Piccini,

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

248 - Improvement in Diastolic Indices by Ranolazine: A Potential Mechanism

for Its Anti-Ischemic and Antiarrhythmic Effects

Hamid Reza Assadi, Hossein Shenasa, Shahriar Heidary, Seyedeh-Atiyeh Afjei,

Shayan Aminilari, Mohammad Shenasa, Heart and Rhythm Medical Group,

San Jose, CA, USA, Department of Cardiovascular Services, San Jose, CA, USA

249 - Variations in Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Resultant Cost

Implications

Roisin B. Morgan, Caroline Daly, Geraldine McMahon, St James's Hospital,

Dublin, Ireland

250 - Physician Adherence to Published Guidelines in Prescribing Anti-

Arrhythmic Medications in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation

George Leef, Dingxin Qin, Mian Bilal Alam, Rohit Rattan, Muhammad Bilal

Munir, Divyang Patel, Furqan Habib Khattak, Nishit Vaghasia, Sandeep Jain,

Samir Saba, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

251 - Early Detection and Treatment of Supraventricular Arrhythmia with

Remote Monitoring Can Prevent its Progression in Pacemaker Patients: The

Randomized, Multicenter SETAM Trial

Mohamed El Oualid Amara, Christian Montagnier, Saïda Cheggour, Michel

Boursier, Claude Gully, Claude Barnay, Frédéric Georger, Antoine Deplagne,

Stéphane Fromentin, Marcin Mlotek, Jérôme Taïeb, Intercommunal Hospital

Centre Le Raincy-Montfermeil, Le Raincy-Montfermeil, France

252 - Outcomes in Patients with a Family History of Atrial Fibrillation:

Findings from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial

Fibrillation

Anna Gundlund, Emil Loldrup Fosboel, Sunghee Kim, Gregg Fonarow, Bernard

Gersh, Alan S. Go, Peter Kowey, Elaine Hylek, Kenneth Mahaffey, Paul Chang,

Laine Thomas, Eric Peterson, Jonathan Piccini, Duke Clinical Research

Institute, Durham, NC, USA, University Hospital of Copenhagen,

Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

253 - The Impact of Pharmacotherapy on Long-Term Survival and Stroke

After Hospitalization for Atrial Fibrillation

George O. Tsoukas, Claudia Blais, Roxanne Gagnon, Denis Hamel, Mark

Sherman, Natasha Garfield, Vidal Essebag, Thao Huynh, McGill Health

University Center, Montreal, Canada, Institute of Public Health Center,

Quebec, Canada

254 - Excessive Atrial Ectopy Increases the Risk of Stroke Beyond Atrial

Fibrillation

Bjorn Larsen, Preman Kumarathurai, Julie Falkenberg Petersen, Ahmad

Sajadieh, Copenhagen University Hospital of Bispebjerg, Copenhagen,

Denmark


Session #1187

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP: Basic


Poster Hall B1


255 - The Late Sodium Current Inhibitor GS967 Suppresses Spontaneous

Atrial Fibrillation in an Intact Porcine Model

Richard L. Verrier, Juliana S. Carneiro, Afonso Alves Bento, Danilo Bacic,

Bruce Nearing, Sridharan Rajamani, Luiz Belardinelli, Beth Israel Deacones

Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA, USA

256 - Selective Late INa Inhibition by GS967 Exerts Potent Suppression of

Catecholamine-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia

Afonso Alves Bento, Danilo Bacic, Juliana Saran Carneiro, Bruce Nearing,

Sridharan Rajamani, Luiz Belardinelli, Richard Verrier, Beth Israel Deaconess

Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA, USA

257 - Increased Expression of HCN Channels and Enhanced If Current in the

Atrial Myocardium Contributes to Atrial Fibrillation Trigger in Transgenic

Atrial Fibrillation Mice

Juan Wang, Yan-Min Yang, Jun Zhu, Emergency and Intensive Care Center,

State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, Beiijng,

People's Republic of China

258 - Ivabradine Prolongs Action Potential Duration and Causes Atrial

Arrhythmia In the Heart

Qiao-Mei Yang, Lin Wu, Wei Yang, Si-hui Huang, Lu Ren, Xiao-hong Wei,

Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

259 - Comparison of Monophasic Action Potentials Recorded Simultaneously

in the Right and Left Atrium in Re-Animated Porcine Hearts

Megan Marie Schmidt, Michael Franz, Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, MN, USA

260 - Analysis of Fibrillatory Waves via Fourier Transform Helps to

Differentiate Paroxysmal, Persistent, and Chronic Atrial Fibrillation

Ira Howard Blau, Chung-Keun Lee, Jung-A Hwang, Kwang Woo Ahn, Hye Jin

Hwang, Byung-Il Choi, Yonsei University College of Medicine and Severance

Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

261 - Fibrillation Number Based on Wavelength and Critical Mass in Patients

Who Underwent Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Minki Hwang, Junbeom Park, Young-Seon Lee, Jae Hyung Park, Eun Bo Shim,

Hui-Nam Pak, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, South Korea, Kangwon

National University, Chuncheon, South Korea

262 - Alpha B-Crystallin Suppress Ventricular Arrhythmia by Preventing

Spontaneous Ca2+ Release in Rat Autoimmune Myocarditis

Hyelim Park, Hyewon Park, Hui-Nam Pak, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Boyoung Joung,

Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, CA, South Korea




263 - Differential Neuronal Remodeling in Porcine Intrinsic Cardiac Ganglia

Following Myocardial Infarction

Keijiro Nakamura, Olujimi Ajijola, Pradeep Rajendran, Eileen So, Kentaro

Yamakawa, Tadanobu Irie, David Hamon, Marmar Vaseghi, Jeffrey Ardell,

Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA

Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Anesthesiology, University of

California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

264 - Metformin Modulates Action Potential Shortening in Response to

Myocardial Ischemia in the In Situ Pig Heart

Gregory G. Schwartz, Li Lu, Shuyu Ye, Clifford R. Greyson, VA Medical Center

and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

265 - Right Ventricular Septal Pacing In Patients with Right Bundle Branch

Block

Basil Abu-el-Haija, Michael Giudici, Prashant Bhave, S. Serge Barold,

Uinversity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

266 - Heart Rate Variability, Assessed in One Minute Windows, Provides

Insight into the Time Course of Changes in Autonomic Nervous System

Activity

Carl Hayward, Hitesh Patel, Sanjay Manohar, Julian Waton, Lee Middleton,

Andrew Wardle, Alexander Lyon, Richard Sutton, Stuart Rosen, NIHR

Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London,

United Kingdom, Ealing Hospital, Southall, United Kingdom

267 - Phenotyping of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme in the Human Heart

Viktoria E. Tikhomirova, Olga V. Kryukova, Roman A. Serov, Naida I. Bulaeva,

Leo A. Bokeria, Elena Golukhova, Olga A. Kost, Sergei M. Danilov, Bakulev

Center of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation, Moscow

State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

268 - Phrenic Nerve Response to Cryoablation Therapies

Lars Mattison, Paul Iaizzo, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Session #1201M

Contemporary Challenges in Clinical EP

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.


B1


9:45 a.m.

Safety of Oral Dofetilide Reloading Compared to Initial Loading for Treatment

of Atrial Arrhythmias

Jae Hyung Cho, JoEllyn Abraham, Roxanne Kyriakakis, Patrick Tchou,

Mandeep Bhargava, Walid Saliba, Bruce Wilkoff, Mina Chung, Cleveland

Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN,

USA

9:55 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:00 a.m.

Cost Variation and Associated Outcomes of Catheter Ablation for Atrial

Fibrillation

Alexander Perino, Jun Fan, Susan Schmitt, Andrew Y. Chang, Daniel Kaiser,

Paul Heidenreich, Christoper Swan, Sanjiv Narayan, Paul Wang, Mintu

Turakhia, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA,

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

10:10 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:15 a.m.

Predictors of Left Atrial Thrombi and Spontaneous Echocardiography

Contrast in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Taking Non-Vitamin K Antagonist

Oral Anticoagulants

Hideyuki Kishima, Takanao Mine, Kenki Ashida, Takeshi Kodani, Tohru

Masuyama, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Japan

10:25 a.m.

Question and Answer

ACC Poster Moderator: Marco Perez

ACC Poster Moderator: Timothy W. Smith 15, 2015, 10:45 a.m. -

12:15 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Angelo A. v De Paola

Co-Chair: Samuel Dudley

Panelist: Jane Chen

Panelist: Debra Echt

Panelist: Douglas N. Gibson

10:45 a.m.

Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Choosing Wisely

Saibal Kar

Los Angeles, CA

11:00 a.m.

Gene Therapy Targeted at Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias

Marco Perez

Palo Alto, CA

11:15 a.m.

Leadless Pacing Technologies: Eliminating the Weak Link

Vivek Yerrapu Reddy

New York, NY

11:30 a.m.

Biological Pacing: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

Eugenio Cingolani

Los Angeles, CA

11:45 a.m.

The Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: Who’s a

Candidate?

Bradley P. Knight

Chicago, IL

12:00 p.m.

ACC Talk: The Future!




Douglas P. Zipes

Indianapolis, IN


Session #650

Case Based Challenges in Atrial Fibrillation

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Phillip S. Cuculich

Co-Chair: Shirley Park

Panelist: Marianne Cosentino

Panelist: Ivan Mendoza

Panelist: Sanjiv M. Narayan

Panelist: Heather M. Ross

Panelist: Mellanie True Hills

12:30 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: How Much Atrial Fibrillation Buys You Anticoagulation?

A 76 Year-Old Woman With CHA2DS2VASc score of 4, Palpitations and Brief

AF on Implanted Pacemaker

Taya Glotzer

Hackensack, NJ

12:35 p.m.

Panel Discussion

12:41 p.m.

Question and Answer

12:49 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: Selecting Patients for AF Ablation in 2015. Who's a

Yes? Who's a No? Role of History, Imaging and Newer Technologies

Hans Kottkamp

Erlenbach, Switzerland

12:54 p.m.

Panel Discussion

1:08 p.m.

Question and Answer

1:13 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: Ablate the AF, or Ablate the Node? One Lead or Two?

A Patient With AF, Rapid Rates and a Narrow QRS Complex

Melissa R. Robinson

Seattle, WA

1:18 p.m.

Panel Discussion

1:24 p.m.

Question and Answer

1:30 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: Weight Loss and Lifestyle? My 280 lb. 54 Year Old

Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Has AF

Prashanthan Sanders

Adelaide, Australia

1:35 p.m.

Panel Discussion

1:40 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #1218

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP: VT


Poster Hall B1


231 - Risk Factors and Outcome of Ventricular Fibrillation Before and During

Primary Angioplasty Among Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Reza Jabbari, Bjarke Risgaard, Emil Fosbøl, Thomas Scheike, Bo Gregers

Winkel, Christine Albert, Charlotte Glinge, Kiril Ahtarovski, Stig Haunsø, Lars

Køber, Erik Jørgensen, Frants Pedersen, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Thomas

Engstrøm, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

232 - Adverse Parasympathetic Remodeling Post Myocardial Infarction and

Electrical Stabilization by Vagal Nerves Stimulation

Marmar Vaseghi, William R. Woodward, Daigo Yagishita, Kentaro Yamakawa,

Stephanie Midtling, Tadanobu Irie, Eileen L. So, Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA

Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Oregon Health Sciences

University, Portland, OR, USA

233 - Incidence, Predictors and Short- and Long-Term Mortality in Patients

with ST-Segment Myocardial Infarction Complicated with Acute Phase

Ventricular Tachycardia/ Ventricular Fibrillation in the Percutaneous

Coronary Intervention Era

Masaharu Masuda, Yasuhiko Sakata, Daisaku Nakatani, Shinichiro Suna,

Masahiko Hara, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Hitoshi Minamiguchi, Hiroya Mizuno,

Yuji Okuyama, Takahisa Yamada, Masaaki Uematsu, Toshimitsu Hamasaki,

Hiroshi Sato, Masatsugu Hori, Issei Komuro, Kansai Rosai Hospital,

Amagasaki, Japan, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita,

Japan

234 - Ventricular Arrhythmias in Hospitalized HFpEF Patients

Madhav Lavu, Ajay Kaja, Arun Kanmantha Reddy, Ravi Thimmisetty,

Vimalkumar Veerappan Kandasamy, Claire Hunter, Aryan Mooss, Venkata

Alla, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

235 - Changes in Follow-Up Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Associated with

Outcomes in Primary Prevention ICD Recipients

Yiyi Zhang, Eliseo Guallar, Elena Blasco-Colmenares, Victor Nauffal, Joseph

Marine, Zayd Eldadah, Timm Dickfeld, Kenneth Ellenbogen, Gordon

Tomaselli, Alan Cheng, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

236 - Circulating Hu Protein Assessment for Arrhythmic Risk Stratification in

Heart Failure Patients

Anyu Zhou, An Xie, Ning Jiang, Guangbin Shi, Kai-Chien Yang, Hong Liu, Li

Zhou, Man Liu, Euy-Myong Jeong, Cody Rutledge, Marco Denegril, Carlo

Napolitano, Silvia G. Priori, Samuel Dudley, Rhode Island Hospital,

Providence, RI, USA




237 - Procedural Benefit of Substrate Base Ablation versus Conventional

Mapping and Ablation of Clinical Stable Ventricular Tachycardia: Results from

the Vista Randomized Trial

Luigi Di Biase, John Burkhardt, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Corrado Carbucicchio,

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Chintan Trivedi, Prasant Mohanty, Pasquale

Santangeli, Rong Bai, Giovanni Forleo, Rodney Horton, Shane Bailey, Javier

Sanchez, Amin Al-Ahmad, Patrick Hranitzky, Gemma Pelargonio, Richard

Hongo, Salwa Beheiry, Steven Hao, Madhu Reddy, Antonio Rossillo, Sakis

Themistoclakis, Antonio Dello Russo, Claudio Tondo, Andrea Natale, Texas

Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA

238 - Influence of Ventricular Pacing Wavefronts on Myocardial Scar

Detection During Electroanatomic Voltage Mapping

Roderick Tung, Jason Bradfield, Eric Buch, Marmar Vaseghi, Carlos Macias,

Olujimi Ajijola, Osamu Fujimura, Noel Boyle, Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA, USA


Session #1219

Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and It's Many Faces


Poster Hall B1


239 - Use of the New Contact Force Sensing Ablation Catheter Dramatically

Reduces Fluoroscopy Time During Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedures

Aditi Naniwadekar, Kamal Joshi, Allan Greenspan, Sumeet Mainigi, Einstein

Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

240 - Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Patients: A Meta-Analysis

of Randomized Controlled Trials

Shadi Al Halabi, Mohammed Qintar, M Chadi Alraies, Daniel Cantillon,

Khaldoun Tarakji, Mohamed Kanj, Oussama Wazni, Walid Saliba, Mandeep

Bhargava, Niraj Varma, Bryan Baranowski, Thomas Callahan, Mina Chung,

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

241 - Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation as a Concomitant Cardiac Surgery

Procedure: A Single-Center Study with 1-Year Follow-up

Marek Orban, Lukas Mach, Vladimir Horvath, Tomas Konecny, Petr Nemec,

International Clinical Research Center, Brno, Czech Republic, Center of CV

Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Brno, Czech Republic

242 - Reduction in Early Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation by Focal Impulse and

Rotor Modulation-Guided Ablation

Tina Baykaner, Stephanie Yoakum, David Krummen, Sanjiv Narayan,

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

243 - Does Left Atrial Appendage Closure Improve the Success of Pulmonary

Vein Isolation? Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Alexander Romanov, Evgeny Pokushalov, Sergey Artyomenko, Akmal

Yakubov, Ilya Stenin, Evgeny Kretov, Oleg Krestianinov, Igor Grazhdankin,

Dejan Risteski, Alexander Karaskov, Jonathan Steinberg, State Research

Institute of Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

244 - Association Between QTc Interval Duration and the Risk of Arrhythmia

Recurrence After Cather Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Xiao-Yan Wu, Nian Liu, Rong Bai, Song-Nan Li, Xin Du, Jianzeng Dong, Chang-

Sheng Ma, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China

245 - Vascular Closure Devices for Venous Accesses in Anticoagulated

Patients After Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Elsayed Abo-Salem, Brian E. Miller, Laura Wexler, Mehran Attari, University

of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

246 - Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Improves Global Thrombotic Status Through

Endogenous Thrombolysis, as Early as 3 Months Post Ablation

Maria Niespialowska-Steuden, Vias Markides, Osita Okafor, Mohamed Farag,

Nikolaos Spinthakis, Benjamin Artman, Diana A. Gorog, Imperial College,

London, United Kingdom, East & North Herts NHS Trust, Stevenage, United

Kingdom

247 - Impact of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation on the Cardiac Sympathetic

Nervous System in Patients with and without Heart Failure: Investigation

Using Cardiac Iodine-123-Metaiodobenzylguanidine Scintigraphy

Masaharu Masuda, Hiroya Mizuno, Hitoshi Minamiguchi, Shozo Konishi,

Tomohito Ohtani, Yuji Okuyama, Masaaki Uematsu, Yasushi Sakata, Osaka

University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

248 - Characteristics of Bipolar Electrograms at Termination Sites of Ablation

Targeting Rotors and Focal Sources of Atrial Fibrillation After Pulmonary Vein

Isolation

Yoshiyuki Hama, Haruka Fujimaki, Toshiharu Himi, Kimitsu Chuo Hospital,

Kisarazu, Japan, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan

249 - Short PR versus Long PR Premature Atrial Contractions on Remote

Monitoring as Predictor of Non Pulmonary Vein Triggers Following

Unsuccessful Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

Luigi Di Biase, Prasant Mohanty, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Chintan Trivedi,

Carola Gianni, Rong Bai, Pasquale Santangeli, Francesco Santoro, Javier

Sanchez, Rodney Horton, G. Gallinghouse, Jason Zagrodzky, Steven Hao,

Salwa Beheiry, Richard Hongo, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Madhu Reddy, Juan

Viles-Gonzalez, John Burkhardt, Andrea Natale, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Inst

at St David's Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

250 - Pressure-Guided Cryoablation of Pulmonary Veins in Atrial Fibrillation:

A Fast and Effective Strategy

Amol Raizada, Nachiket Apte, Max DeHaan, Christopher Stanton, University

of South Dakota, Sanford Heart Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

251 - Experience with a Novel Irrigated Multipolar Irrigated Ablation Catheter

(nmarq) for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Acute Safety, Efficacy and Follow-up

Data

Thomas Deneke, Patrick Müller, Anja Schade, Joachim Krug, Rainer Schmitt,

Markus Roos, Atilla Szöllözi, Karin Nentwich, Heart Center Bad Neustadt, Bad

Neustadt, Germany

252 - Risk for Silent Cerebral Events in Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation

Ablation

Thomas Deneke, Karin Nentwich, Joachim Krug, Rainer Schmitt, Goergios

Kristopoulos, Philipp Halbfass, Andreas Muegge, Attilla Szöllösi, Anja Schade,

Patrick Müller, Heart Center Bad Neustadt, Bad Neustadt, Germany

253 - Feasibility of Adjunctive Percutaneous Epicardial Mapping and Ablation

of Atrial Fibrillation: Comprehensive Validation of Lesion Transmurality

Roderick Tung, Eric Buch, Noel Boyle, Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA, USA




254 - Electrophysiological Observations During Left Atrial Septal Linear

Ablation: Validation of Bidirectional Conduction Block

Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, Gopi Dandamudi, Kenneth Ellenbogen, Geisinger

Heart Institute, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA, Virginia Commonwealth University

Health Center, Richmond, VA, USA


Session #1220

Novel Findings in the World of Electrophysiology


Poster Hall B1


255 - Fever Induced Brugada Syndrome Is More Common than Previously

Suspected: A Crossectional Study from an Endemic Area

Pattara Rattanawong, Wasawat Vutthikraivit, Attawit Charoensri, Awapa

Prombandankul, Napatt Kanjanahattakij, Tanawat Jongraksak, Treechada

Wisaratapong, Tachapong Ngarmukos, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi

Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

256 - The Effects of Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation with Isoproterenol and the

Contribution of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function on Left Atrial Pressure in

Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparison to Atrial Pacing

Tae-Hoon Kim, Junbeom Park, Jin-Kyu Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Boyoung Joung,

Moon-Hyoung Lee, Hui-Nam Pak, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul,

South Korea

257 - Pericardial Access with Micropunture Needle for Lariat: Is it Safe and

Effective?

Alexandra Regina Martin, Eric Crimmons, Steven Martin, Harpaul Bajwa,

Denes Korpas, Shari Rooney, Hosakote Nagaraj, Nebraska Heart Hospital,

Lincoln, NE, USA

258 - Dose-Response Relationship Between Hypermagnesemia and QTc

Prolongation

Chayakrit Krittanawong, Charat Thongprayoon, Thoetchai Peeraphatdit,

Malcolm Bell, Vitaly Herasevich, Peter Brady, Suraj Kapa, Samuel Asirvatham,

Niyada Naksuk, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

259 - Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction Is More Common in Patients with

Syncope

Abdul Jawwad Samdani, Hena Samdani, Moghniuddin Mohammed, Sharma

Kattel, Mrinalini Meesala, Yuji Saito, Catholic Health System, State University

of NY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

260 - Efficacy and Safety of Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Ligation with

LARIAT: A Meta-Analysis

Arun Kanmanthareddy, Avanija Buddam, Madhu Reddy, Muhammad Afzal,

Sampath Gunda, Claire Hunter, Venkata Alla, Donita Atkins, Dhanunjaya

Lakkireddy, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA, CHI

Health Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

261 - Blood Pressure and Risk for Stroke or Bleeding Events in Patients with

Atrial Fibrillation: Results from the Orbit AF Study

Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Sunghee Kim, Laine Thomas, Gregg Fonarow, Michael

Ezekowitz, Peter Kowey, Paul Chang, Manesh Patel, Jonathan Piccini,

Kenneth Mahaffey, Alan Go, Bernard Gersh, Eric Peterson, Duke Clinical

Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA

262 - Differences in Electrical Substrate in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis

May Predict Arrhythmia Risk

Alan Sugrue, Jojo Hai, Stephanie Joppa, Grace Lin, Martha Grogan, Angela

Dispenzieri, Peter Brady, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

263 - Prognostic Value of the Epinephrine Test Following Thoracoscopic Left

Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation in Patients with Inherited Arrhythmia

Syndrome

Se Yong Jang, Yongkeun Cho, Jae Hee Kim, Sun Hee Park, Myung Hwan Bae,

Jang Hoon Lee, Dong Heon Yang, Hun Sik Park, Shung Chull Chae, Kyungpook

National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea

264 - Retrospective Analysis of Management of Bleeding Complications in

Patients Taking Target Specific Oral Anticoagulants at a Large Tertiary

Academic Medical Center

Craig Andrew Stevens, Heather Dell'Orfano, David P. Reardon, Lina Matta,

Bonnie Greenwood, Julie Atay, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA,

USA

265 - Increased Non-Alternans Repolarization Variability of Intracardiac

Electrogram Precedes Onset of Spontaneous Ventricular Arrhythmias in

Patients with Implantable Defibrillator

Yuliya Krokhaleva, Divyang Patel, Hemal Shah, Vladimir Shusterman, Samir

Saba, Jan Nemec, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA, USA

266 - Comparative Effect of Noval Oral Anticoagulants on Global Thrombotic

Status in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Mohamed Farag, Osita Okafor, Maria Niespialowska-Steuden, Benjamin

Artman, Manivannan Srinivasan, Arif Khan, Diana Gorog, Postgraduate

Medical School, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom,

Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

267 - Amiodarone Desensitization by a Novel Protocol in a Patient with

Advanced Biventricular Heart Failure and Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia

Miriam Freundt, Francis Ngo, Saint Joesph Hospital, Denver, CO, USA, Kaiser

Permanente, Dept. of Electrophysiology, Denver, CO, USA

268 - The Profile of Survivors of Community Pediatric Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Barry A. Love, Robert Tozzi, Ira Parness, Shubhika Srivastava, James Nielsen,

Davendra Mehta, Srinivas Dukkipati, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York,

NY, USA


Session #661

Case Based Electrocardiogram Interpretation

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Peter A. Brady

Co-Chair: Paul J. Wang

Panelist: Bruce D. Lindsay

Panelist: William G. Stevenson

Panelist: Sami Viskin

2:00 p.m.

Case-Based ECG 1




Yochai Birnbaum

Houston, TX

2:05 p.m.

Panel Discussion

2:12 p.m.

Question and Answer

2:23 p.m.

Case-Based ECG 2

Bruce D. Lindsay

Cleveland, OH

2:28 p.m.

Panel Discussion

2:35 p.m.

Question and Answer

2:45 p.m.

Case-Based ECG 3

William G. Stevenson

Boston, MA

2:50 p.m.

Panel Discussion

2:57 p.m.

Question and Answer

3:08 p.m.

Case-Based ECG 4

Sami Viskin

Tel Aviv, Israel

3:13 p.m.

Panel Discussion

3:20 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #1236M

Cutting Edge Topics in Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation



B1


ACC Poster Moderator: Michael D. Ezekowitz

ACC Poster Moderator: Jonathan P. Piccini

3:45 p.m.

Left Atrial Appendage Morphology Influences Flow Velocity

Hideyuki Kishima, Takanao Mine, Kenki Ashida, Takeshi Kodani, Tohru

Masuyama, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Japan

3:55 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:00 p.m.

CHA²DS²VASc Score Does Not Correlate with Thrombotic Status in Atrial

Fibrillation

Mohamed Farag, Osita Okafor, Maria Niespialowska-Steuden, Nikolaos

Spinthakis, Benjamin Artman, Diana Gorog, Postgraduate Medical School,

University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Imperial College,

London, United Kingdom

4:10 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:15 p.m.

Post-Marketing Pharmacovigilance Study for the Active Detection and

Evaluation of Major Bleeding in Rivaroxaban Users with Non-Valvular Atrial

Fibrillation

Sally Tamayo, Manesh Patel, Zhong Yuan, Kathleen Hopf, W. Frank Peacock,

Health ResearchTx, Trevose, PA, USA, Janssen Research and Development,

LLC, Titusville, NJ, USA

4:25 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #671

Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Athlete

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Rachel J. Lampert

Co-Chair: Silvana M. Lawrence

Panelist: James Beckerman

Panelist: David S. Cannom

Panelist: Ulrika Green

Panelist: Benjamin D. Levine

4:45 p.m.

Case-Based Interpretation of the ECG in the Athlete

Mark S. Link

Boston, MA

4:55 p.m.

Panel Discussion

5:04 p.m.

Screening: Who and How, Pros and Cons

Aaron L. Baggish

Boston, MA

5:14 p.m.

Panel Discussion

5:22 p.m.

AEDs and Preparedness

Eugene H. Chung

Chapel Hill, NC




5:32 p.m.

Panel Discussion

5:41 p.m.

Who's at Risk for Return to Play? Genotype Versus Phenotype

Elizabeth V. Saarel

Salt Lake City, UT

5:51 p.m.

Panel Discussion

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP - Clinical Focus

Session #1604

Why is Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation So Difficult?

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Room 6A

CME Hours: 2 /CNE Hours: 2

6:00 p.m.

Dinner

Co-Chair: Mintu Turakhia

Co-Chair: Kenneth W. Mahaffey

6:30 p.m.

Clinical Facilitator

Jonathan Hsu

6:30 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Kenneth W. Mahaffey

Stanford, CA

6:35 p.m.

Clinical Practice Today and Tomorrow: What's Hot in AF from ACC.15

Peter Smith

Marshfield, WI

6:45 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION 1: A Patient With a High CHADS-VASC Score and High

Bleeding Risk

Peter Kowey

Wynnewood, PA

Panelist: Shephal Doshi

Panelist: Mitchell Faddis

Panelist: Julia H. Indik

Panelist: Peter Kowey

Panelist: Peter Smith

Panelist: Mintu Turakhia

Panelist: Isabelle Van Gelder

6:55 p.m.

Moderated Roundtable 1: How to Protect my Atrial Fibrillation Patient: Using

Guidelines and Evidence to Balance Risks of Stroke and Bleeding

7:10 p.m.

CASE PRESENTATION 2: My Patient With High Stroke Risk on a Non-Vitamin K

Oral Anticoagulant (NOAC) Needs Cardioversion

Isabelle Van Gelder

Groningen, Netherlands







Panelist: Kenneth W. Mahaffey

7:20 p.m.

Moderated Roundtable 2: How to Protect my Atrial Filbrillation Patient Using

Guidelines and Evidence to Balance Risks of Stroke and Bleeding

7:35 p.m.

Emerging Strategies for Stroke Prevention in AF

Mitchell Faddis

Saint Louis, MO

7:45 p.m.

Overview on Atrial Appendage Closure Devices: Options, Indications and

What the FDA Is Concerned About

Shephal Doshi

Santa Monica, CA

7:55 p.m.

Real Cases: Managing Anticoagulation in Specific Populations and High Risk

Patients

Julia H. Indik

Tucson, AZ






Panelist: Mintu Turakhia


8:15 p.m.

Moderated Roundtable 3: Managing Complexities: Surgical Patients, Bridging

and Alternatives to Anticoagulation

8:25 p.m.

Summary and Concluding Remarks

Kenneth W. Mahaffey

Stanford, CA


Session #677

Can Registries Improve the Quality of Arrhythmia Care?

Monday, March 16, 2015, 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Room 1B





Co-Chair: Sana M. Al-Khatib

Co-Chair: Mark S. Kremers

Panelist: Amy Leigh Miller

Panelist: Matthew R. Reynolds

8:00 a.m.

Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation in the Clinic: Promises and Pitfalls.

Insights From the PINNACLE Registry

Joseph P. Drozda

Saint Louis, MO

8:12 a.m.

Can Remote Monitoring of Implanted Devices Improve Outcome?

Joseph Akar

New Haven, CT

8:24 a.m.

Device System Malfunction: Can Registries Help? Where Do We Need to go?

Robert G. Hauser

Minneapolis, MN

8:36 a.m.

Complications After ICD Implantation: A Benchmark for Public Reporting

Jeptha P. Curtis

New Haven, CT

8:48 a.m.

Outcomes of Cardiac Resynchronization Defibrillators in the Real World: Do

the Trials Hold up in Practice?

Pamela Peterson

Denver, CO

9:00 a.m.

Obtaining Maintenance of Certification Part IV Credit Using an ICD Registry

Paul D. Varosy

Denver, CO

9:12 a.m.

Panel Discussion

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP (including MOC)

Session #819

ACCF Study Session for Maintenance of Certification: ABIM

Recertification Made Easy: Electrophysiology Module 1

Monday, March 16, 2015, 8 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

29B

CME Hours: 2.5 /CNE Hours: 0

Co-Chair: Peter N. Smith

MOC Faculty: Peter A. Brady

MOC Faculty: Mintu Turakhia


Session #1253

Outcomes and Cardiac Device Therapy

Monday, March 16, 2015, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poster Hall B1


231 - Echocardiographic Predictors of Long Term Outcomes in Patients

Undergoing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: What is the Optimal Metric?

John Rickard, Ryan Tedford, Mark Niebauer, Mohamed Bassiouny, David

Spragg, Bryan Baranowski, Bruce Wilkoff, Niraj Varma, Johns Hopkins,

Baltimore, MD, USA, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

232 - Impaired Baseline Global Circumferential Strain Is a Marker for

Ventricular Arrhythmias After Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with

Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Antonia Delgado-Montero, Bhupendar Tayal, Akiko Goda, Stephanie Holt,

David Schwartzman, Samir Saba, John Gorcsan, University of Pittsburgh

Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

233 - Incidence of Ventricular Arrhythmias after Cardiac Resynchronization

Defibrillator Therapy in Patients with Right Ventricular Pacing versus Intrinsic

QRS Widening

Bhupendar Tayal, Antonia Delgado Montero, Akiko Goda, Stephanie Holt,

Samir Saba, David Schwartzman, Peter Søgaard, John Gorcsan, University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

234 - Transient Responder of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Their

Proportion, Predictors and Prognosis

Takafumi Oka, Koichi Inoue, Koji Tanaka, Yuko Toyoshima, Takaaki Isshiki,

Takeshi Kimura, Masakiyo Nobuyoshi, Kenji Ando, Satoshi Shizuta, Takeshi

Arita, Satoki Fujii, Katsuomi Iwakura, Kenshi Fujii, Sakurabashi Watanabe

Hospital, Osaka, Japan, Osaka, Japan

235 - The Acute Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Is Not

Related to Left Ventricular Lead Position or Electrical Separation Time

Stian Ross, Erik Kongsgaard, Thor Edvardsen, Trine Haland, Rita Skaardal,

Gammelsrud Lars Ove, Trent Fischer, Richard Cornelussen, Hans Henrik

Odland, Oslo University Hospital, Departement of Cardiology, Oslo, Norway

236 - The Acute Effects of Selective Site Right Ventricular Pacing on Left and

Right Ventricular Hemodynamic Function in a Normal Heart Population

Stuart Cheng-Yuen Tan, James Hampton-Till, Paul White, Richard Axell, David

Farwell, Stuart Harris, Essex Cardiothoracic Centre, Basildon, United

Kingdom, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Anglia Ruskin University,

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

237 - Benefits of ICD Therapy: Connecting Treatment Decisions to

Individualized SCD Risk Estimates within MADIT-II Using the Seattle

Proportional Risk Model

Wayne C. Levy, Ilan Goldenberg, Arthur Moss, University of Washington,

Seattle, WA, USA, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

238 - Outcomes After Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Placement in Patients

with End-Stage Renal Disease

Ashok Krishnaswami, Mary Lou Kiley, Faith Anthony, Yuexin Chen, Jason

Chen, Sumanth Rajagopal, Taylor Liu, Charlie Young, Elizabeth W. Paxton,

Kaiser Permanente- San Jose Medical Center, San Jose, CA, USA, Kaiser

Permanente Surgical Outcomes and Analysis, San Diego, CA, USA




239 - Comparative Effectiveness of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with

Defibrillator versus Defibrillator Alone in Heart Failure Patients with

Moderate to Severe Chronic Kidney Disease

Daniel Friedman, Jagmeet Singh, Jeptha Curtis, Wai Hong Tang, Haikun Bao,

Erica Spatz, Adrian Hernandez, Uptal Patel, Sana Al-Khatib, Duke University

Hospital, Durham, NC, USA

240 - Reassessment of Cardiac Function and Implantable Cardioverter-

Defibrillator Use Among Medicare Patients with Low Ejection Fraction After

Myocardial Infarction

Sean Pokorney, Amy Leigh Miller, Anita Chen, Laine Thomas, Gregg Fonarow,

James de Lemos, Sana Al-Khatib, Eric Peterson, Tracy Wang, Duke Clinical

Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA

241 - Are There Differences in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator

Counseling Rates Among Eligible Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure?

National Results from the American Heart Association’s Get with the

Guidelines- Heart Failure Program

Paul L. Hess, Adrian F. Hernandez, Deepak L. Bhatt, Anne S. Hellkamp, Clyde

W. Yancy, Lee H. Schwamm, Eric D. Peterson, Philip J. Schulte, Gregg C.

Fonarow, Sana M. Al-Khatib, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC,

USA, Durham, NC, USA

242 - Temporal Trends and Clinical Correlates of ICD Implantation Amongst

Patients Actively Listed for Heart Transplantation

Kairav Vakil, Kashan S. Abidi, M Chadi Alraies, Sue Duval, Monica Colvin-

Adams, Ziad Taimeh, Selcuk Adabag, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

MN, USA, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

243 - The Post-Implantation Electrocardiogram Predicts Clinical Response to

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Edward Coverstone, Justin Sheehy, Robert Kleiger, Timothy Smith,

Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA

244 - Association of Air Pollution with Increased Incidence of Ventricular

Tachyarrhythmias Recorded by Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

In-Soo Kim, Jungwoo Sohn, Seung-joon Lee, Jin-Kyu Park, Jae-Sun Uhm, Hui-

Nam Pak, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Chang-Soo Kim, Boyoung Joung, Yonsei

University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

245 - Healthcare Resource Utilization and Impact on Cost with Use of Remote

Monitoring Strategy Compared to Conventional Follow-up for Implantable

Cardioverter Defibrillators: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Saurabh Aggarwal, Navdeep Gupta, Rohit Loomba, Anushree Agarwal, Imtiaz

Ismail, Nawfal Al-Khafaji, Venkata Alla, Hussam Abuissa, Rohit Arora, Aryan

Mooss, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA, Medical

College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

246 - Variations in Use of Remote Monitoring of Implantable Defibrillators

Relative to the Introduction of Billing Codes Specific to Remote Monitoring

Faseeha Altaf, Joseph Akar, Judith Lichtman, Haikun Bao, Paul Jones, Paul

Varosy, Frederick Masoudi, Kenneth Stein, Leslie Saxon, Jeptha Curtis, Yale

University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA, Boston Scientific

Corporation, St. Paul, MN, USA

247 - Left Ventricular Regional Time Correlation by Echocardiographic Strain

Analysis Is Predictive of Survival Free from Arrhythmias in Non-Left Bundle

Branch Patients After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Stephanie C. Holt, Bhupendar Tayal, Antonia Delgado-Montero, Sanjeev

Shroff, David Schwartzman, Samir Saba, John Gorcsan, Heart and Vascular

Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

248 - Comparison of Upgraded versus De-Novo Cardiac Resynchronisation

Therapy (CRT) Devices on Cardiovascular Outcomes and Response: A 5 Year

Registry

Christopher James McAloon, Domonic P. Heining, Jethro J. Barker, Benjamin

Anderson, Gavin Atherton, Faizel Osman, University Hospital Coventry and

Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom, Warwick Medical

School, University of Warwick, Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom


Session #1254

Risks for Atrial Fibrillation: Where Do We Look?


Poster Hall B1


249 - Racial/Ethnic Differences in Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms, Treatment

Patterns, and Outcomes: Insights from Outcomes Registry for Better

Informed Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) Registry

Harsh Golwala, Larry Jackson, DaJuanicia Simon, Gregg Fonarow, Paul Chang,

Bernard Gersh, Alan Go, Elaine Hylek, Peter Kowey, Kenneth Mahaffey, Laine

Thomas, Eric Peterson, Jonathan Piccini, Kevin Thomas, University of

Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA, Duke Clinical Research

Institute, Durham, NC, USA

250 - Utilization and Predictors of Electrical Cardioversion for Atrial

Fibrillation

Yogita M. Rochlani, Nishi Shah, Naga Venkata Pothineni, Hakan Paydak,

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

251 - The Minimum Left Atrium Volume Is a Superior Predictor of Future

Atrial Fibrillation in a Low Risk General Population: The Copenhagen City

Heart Study

Tor Biering-Sørensen, Rasmus Mogelvang, Peter Schnohr, Jan Jensen,

Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

252 - Atrial Fibrillation, Prevalence and Risk for Mortality in Very Old Men

and Women

Bodil Lernfelt, Gustaf Lernfelt, Per O. Hansson, Department of Internal

Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

253 - Circulating Intermediate CD14++CD16+ Monocytes Are Increased in

Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Reflect Functional Remodeling of Left

Atrium

Atsushi Suzuki, Koji Fukuzawa, Tomoya Yamashita, Akihiro Yoshida, Naoto

Sasaki, Takuo Emoto, Asumi Takei, Ryudo Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Nakanishi,

Soichiro Yamashita, Akinori Matsumoto, Hiroki Konishi, Hirotoshi Ichibori,

Nobutaka Inoue, Ken-ichi Hirata, Kobe University Graduate School of

Medicine, Kobe, Japan, Kobe Rosai Hospital, Kobe, Japan

254 - Community Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in a Chinese Population

Using a Smartphone-Based Wireless Single-Lead ECG

Ngai-Yin Chan, Chi-Chung Choy, Princess Margaret Hospital, Kowloon, Hong

Kong




255 - Novel Association of Polymorphic Genetic Variants with Predictors of

Outcome of Catheter Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation: New Directions from a

Prospective Study (DECAF)

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Amelia W. Hall, Prasant Mohanty, Sameer Prakash,

Chintan Trivedi, Luigi Di Biase, Pasquale Santangeli, Carola Gianni, Rong Bai,

John Burkhardt, Joe Gallinghouse, Rodney Horton, Javier Sanchez, Patrick

Hranitzky, Amin Al-Ahmad, Viswanath R. Iyer, Andrea Natale, Texas Cardiac

Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA, UT at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

256 - Are There Gender-Related Differences in Management, and Outcome

of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation? A Prospective National Study

Yoav Arnson, Moti Haim, Meir Medical Center, Cardiology Department, Kfar

Sava, Israel, Clalit Health Services Research Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel

257 - Addition of Atrial Ectopy and NT-proBNP to Framingham Atrial

Fibrillation Risk Algorithm Improves Risk Prediction

Preman Kumarathurai, Mette R. Mouridsen, Nick Mattsson, Bjorn Larsen,

Olav Nielsen, Thomas Gerds, Ahmad Sajadieh, Copenhagen University

Hosptial of Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark

258 - Socioeconomic Status and Predictors of Survival in Patients Admitted

with Atrial Fibrillation

Faraj Kargoli, Eric Shulman, Philip Aagaard, Ethan Hoch, Luigi Di Biase, Kevin

Ferrick, Andrew Krumerman, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein

College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

259 - Age and Gender Differences in Atrial Fibrosis in Patients with Atrial

Fibrillation

Nazem Akoum, Christian Mahnkopf, Gagandeep Kaur, Eugene Kholmovski,

Nassir Marrouche, Comprehensive Arrhythmia Research and Management

(CARMA) Center-University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

260 - Cumulative and Individual Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

for Atrial Fibrillation by Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

in Patients with Heart Failure

Akira Fujii, Akiyoshi Ogimoto, Takayuki Nagai, Hiroshi Kawakami, Jun Suzuki,

Katsuji Inoue, Kazuhisa Nishimura, Teruyoshi Uetani, Jun-ichi Funada,

Yasuharu Tabara, Takafumi Okura, Jitsuo Higaki, Ehime University Graduate

School of Medicine, Toon, Japan

261 - Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Various Rate Control Strategies for

Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection

Fraction and Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter with Rapid Ventricular Response

Siva Krothapalli, Lee Joseph, Omer Iqbal, Olurotimi Mesubi, Hardik Doshi,

Nicole Worden, Jayasheel Eshcol, Musab Alqasrawi, Prashant Bhave, Michael

Giudici, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

262 - Economic Burden of Undiagnosed Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation in the

United States

Mintu Turakhia, Jason Shafrin, Katalin Bognar, Jeffrey Trocio, Younos

Abdulsattar, Daniel Wiederkehr, Dana Goldman, Stanford University,

Stanford, CA, USA, Precision Health Economics, Los Angeles, CA, USA

263 - Prevalence and Outcomes of Recurrent Hospital Admissions in Patients

with Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from the Gulf Survey of Atrial Fibrillation

Events (Gulf SAFE) Registry

Nidal Asaad, Mohammad Zubaid, Mohammed Mohsen, Jassim Al-suwaidi,

Rajvir Singh, Jassim Zaheen, Alawi Alsheikh-Ali, Wael Almahmeed, Wafa

Rashed, Haitham Amin, Ahmed Al Qudaimi, Christian Bollensdorff, Magdi

Yacoub, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

264 - The Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Endothelial Dysfunction

Gerasimos Siasos, Savvas Mazaris, Konstantinos Zisimos, Evangelos

Oikonomou, Eleni Kokkou, Theodosia Konsola, Konstantinos Mourouzis,

Manolis Vavuranakis, Theodoros Zografos, Marina Zaromitidou, George

Lazaros, Christine Chrysohoou, Athanasios Papavassiliou, Christodoulos I

Stefanadis, Dimitris Tousoulis, University of Athens Medical School, 1st

Cardiology Department, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

265 - The Role of Systemic Inflammation in Paroxysmal and Chronic Atrial

Fibrillation

Gerasimos Siasos, Savvas Mazaris, Konstantinos Zisimos, Evangelos

Oikonomou, Eleni Kokkou, Theodosia Konsola, Konstantinos Mourouzis,

Manolis Vavuranakis, Theodoros Zografos, Marina Zaromitidou, George

Lazaros, Christine Chrysohoou, Athanasios Papavassiliou, Christodoulos I

Stefanadis, Dimitris Tousoulis, University of Athens Medical School, 1st

Cardiology Department, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

266 - Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Clinical Presentations of

New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

Konstantinos Siontis, Bernard Gersh, Pamela McCabe, Veronique Roger,

Alanna M. Chamberlain, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

267 - Trends in Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalization in Young Patients

Abhishek Deshmukh, Achint Patel, Shantanu Solanki, Samir Patel,

Nileshkumar Patel, Badal Thakkar, Nilay Patel, Shilpkumar Arora, Nikhil

Nalluri, Peter Noseworthy, Suraj Kapa, Chance Witt, Sadip Pant, Apurva

Badheka, Paul Friedman, Samuel Asirvatham, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN,

USA, Rochester, MN

268 - The Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation Post Atrial Flutter Amongst Different

Races

Matthew Pierce, Evan Klein, Chethan Gangireddy, Jeffrey Arkles, Temple

University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Temple University School of

Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA


Session #1270M

Risk Factor and Demographic Influences in Arrhythmias

Monday, March 16, 2015, 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.


B1


ACC Poster Moderator: Jim W. Cheung

ACC Poster Moderator: Alexander Mazur

9:45 a.m.

Familial Clustering of Syncope in First-Degree Relatives: A Danish Nationwide

Study

Deewa Zahir, Louise E. Bruun, Anna-Karin Nume, Martin Ruwald, Gunnar

Gislason, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

9:55 a.m.

Question and Answer




10:00 a.m.

Effect of Weight Loss on Ventricular Repolarization: A Meta-Analysis of

Clinical Studies

Jad Omran, Belal Firwana, Ashraf Al-Dadah, Martin Alpert, University of

Missouri Hospital and Clinics, Columbia, MO, USA

10:10 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:15 a.m.

Body Mass Index and Outcomes with Apixaban versus Warfarin in Patients

with Atrial Fibrillation in the ARISTOTLE (Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke

and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation) Trial

Roopinder K. Sandhu, Justin Ezekowitz, Ulrika Andersson, John Alexander,

Christopher Granger, Sigrun Halvorsen, Michael Hanna, Ziad Hijazi, Petr

Jansky, Renato Lopes, Lars Wallentin, University of Alberta, Edmonton,

Canada

10:25 a.m.

Question and Answer


Session #686

Abnormal ECG? Asymptomatic? What Next?


Room 1B


Co-Chair: Melvin M. Scheinman

Co-Chair: Brian Olshansky

Panelist: Michael J. Ackerman

Panelist: Andrew D. Krahn

10:45 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 27 Year Old Man With a Brugada Pattern ECG

Abigail Matos-Pagan

Mayaguez, PR

10:50 a.m.

Panel Discussion

10:57 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:07 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 46 Year Old Man With ST Segment Elevation in the

Inferior ECG Leads

Dan Hu

Utica, NY

11:12 a.m.

Panel Discussion

11:19 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:30 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 36 Year Old Woman With a Prolonged QT

Sami Viskin

Tel Aviv, Israel

11:35 a.m.

Panel Discussion

11:42 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:52 a.m.

CASE PRESENTATION: An 18 Year Old Brazilian Soccer Player With Frequent

PVCs

Mikhael El-Chami

Atlanta, GA

11:57 a.m.

Panel Discussion

12:04 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #693

Did the Guidelines Get It Right? A Series of Debates

Monday, March 16, 2015, 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Julia H. Indik

Co-Chair: Fred M. Kusumoto

Panelist: Geerhardt Hindricks

Panelist: Richard L. Page

12:30 p.m.

DEBATE: Timing of ICD Implant After Revascularization. Always 90 Days? A 60

Year Old Woman With Heart Failure, Remote Anterior Wall MI and LVEF 25%,

Recent Angina and Stent to Obtuse Marginal Artery (PRO)

Andrea M. Russo

Moorestown, NJ

12:40 p.m.

Timing of ICD Implant After Revascularization. Always 90 Days? CON? A 60

Year Old Woman With Heart Failure, Remote Anterior Wall MI and LVEF 25%,

Recent Angina and Stent to Obtuse Marginal Artery.

Julia H. Indik

Tucson, AZ

12:50 p.m.

Question and Answer

12:55 p.m.

DEBATE: AF: Lenient Versus Strict Rate Control? Lenient: A 65 Year Old Man

has Permanent AF and 24 hour Holter Shows Average Heart Rate 100 bpm,

Range 80-140 bpm. He Feels Well. Is this Rate Control Good Enough? (PRO)

Isabelle Van Gelder

Groningen, Netherlands

1:05 p.m.

DEBATE: AF: Lenient Versus Strict Rate Control? Strict: A 65 Year Old Man has




Permanent AF and 24 hr Holter Shows Average Heart Rate 100 bpm, Range

80-140 bpm. He Feels Well. Is this Rate Control Good Enough? (CON)

Albert L. Waldo

Cleveland, OH

1:15 p.m.

Question and Answer

1:20 p.m.

DEBATE: Cardioversion of AF With or Without Anticoagulation? A 67 Year Old

Woman Presents to the ER in AF That Began 24 Hours Ago. She Has No Past

Medical History. Can She Be Cardioverted Without Anticoagulation on

Board? (PRO)

Bulent Gorenek

Eskisehir, Turkey

1:30 p.m.

DEBATE: Cardioversion of AF With or Without Anticoagulation? A 67 Year Old

Woman Presents to the ER in AF that Began 24 Hours Ago. She Has No Past

Medical History. Can She Be Cardioverted Without Anticoagulation on

Board? (CON)

Mina K. Chung

Cleveland, OH

1:40 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #704

Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Drugs, Devices, and Debate

Monday, March 16, 2015, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Room 1B


Co-Chair: Marye J. Gleva

Co-Chair: Kenneth W. Mahaffey

2:00 p.m.

Fellow-In-Training Panelist: Tina Baykaner

2:00 p.m.

Fellow-In-Training Panelist: Gautam G. Lalani

2:00 p.m.

NOACs: Management Dilemmas. Choice, Monitoring, Reversal.

Peter Kowey

Wynnewood, PA

2:10 p.m.

Identification of Patients at Risk for Stroke From Atrial Fibrillation

Emile G. Daoud

Columbus, OH

2:20 p.m.

Debate 1: AF Ablation Eliminates the Need for Anticoagulation (PRO)

Andrea Natale

Austin, TX

2:30 p.m.

Debate 1: AF Ablation Eliminates the Need for Anticoagulation (CON)

Jeff S. Healey

Hamilton, Canada

2:40 p.m.

Rebuttal 1: PRO

2:45 p.m.

Rebuttal 1: CON

2:50 p.m.

Question and Answer

2:55 p.m.

Debate 2: OAC Is a Better Option for AF-Related Stroke Prevention Than

Device Therapy (Appendage Occlusion) (PRO)

Michael D. Ezekowitz

Wynnewood, PA

3:05 p.m.

Debate 2: OAC Is a Better Option for AF-Related Stroke Prevention Than

Device Therapy (Appendage Occlusion) (CON)

Vivek Yerrapu Reddy

New York, NY

3:15 p.m.

Rebuttal 2: PRO

3:20 p.m.

Rebuttal 2: CON

3:25 p.m.

Question and Answer


Session #715

Difficult Surgical Scenarios: LVAD, TAVR, Hybrid AF Ablation and

Preventing Post-Operative AF


Room 1B


Co-Chair: Eugene H. Chung

Co-Chair: Jodie L. Hurwitz

Panelist: Srinivas Dukkipati

Panelist: Matthew Wright Kingdom

Panelist: Gregory K. Feld

3:45 p.m.

Debate 1: ICD Therapy Should be Utilized in LVAD Patients (PRO)

Hasan Garan

New York, NY

3:55 p.m.

Debate 1: ICD Therapy Should be Utilized in LVAD Patients (CON)

Alan Enriquez

Brookline, MA




4:05 p.m.

Rebuttal 1: PRO

4:10 p.m.

Rebuttal 1: CON

3:55 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:05 p.m.

Debate 2: All Persistent AF Patients Should be Offered a Hybrid AF Ablation

PRO

John Paul Mounsey

Chapel Hill, NC

4:15 p.m.

Debate 2: All Persistent AF Patients Should be Offered a Hybrid AF Ablation

(CON)

Vinod H. Thourani

Atlanta, GA

4:25 p.m.

Rebuttal 2: PRO

4:30 p.m.

Rebuttal 2: CON

4:35 p.m.

Question and Answer

4:45 p.m.

Evaluation and Prevention of Heart Block in Patients Undergoing TAVR

Daniel L. Lustgarten

Burlington, VT

5:00 p.m.

Novel Strategies to Prevent Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation. Drugs, Fat Pad

Resection and Botox!

Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy

Overland Park, KS

Arrhythmias and Clinical EP (including MOC)

Session #827

Core Curriculum: Atrial Fibrillation - The Essentials


Room 20C


Chair: Mitchell N. Faddis

3:45 p.m.

Strategies for Rate and Rhythm Control

Kristen K. Patton

Seattle, WA

4:10 p.m.

Stroke Prevention in AFib: In With the New, Out With the Old?

Ralph J. Verdino

Philadelphia, PA

4:35 p.m.

Invasive Approaches to AFib

Michael Glikson

Tel Hashomer, Israel

5:00 p.m.

Audience Question and Answer/Discussion

Data & Analytics

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