Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2014.050301

John D. Day, MD, FHRS, FACC

Vacuum-assisted Debulking of a Prohibitively Large Tricuspid Valve Vegetation Prior to Percutaneous Laser Lead Extraction

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2014.050302

¹JOHN MORIARTY, MD, ²KOMAL PATEL, MD and ³JASON BRADFIELD, MD

¹Department of Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

²Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
³ UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Clinician Response to Remote Active Monitoring in Patients with Heart Failure: Results of the RAPID-RF Trial

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2014.050303

¹JOHN P. BOEHMER, MD, ²LESLIE A. SAXON, MD, ³JOHN LOBBAN, MD, ⁴ANDREW KAPLAN, MD, ⁵ROLLO VILLAREAL, MD, ⁶IRFAN MIRZA, MD, ⁷PAUL JONES, MS, ⁷MILAN SETH, MS and ⁷TIMOTHY E. MEYER, PhD

¹The Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA
²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
³Morgantown Internal Medicine Group, Inc., Morgantown, WV, USA
⁴Cardiovascular Associates of Mesa, Mesa, AZ, USA
⁵Piedmont Cardiology Associates, Greenwood, SC, USA
⁶Southwest Cardiovascular Associates, Bullhead City, AZ, USA
⁷Boston Scientific Corporation, St. Paul, MN, USA

Signal-Averaged versus 12-lead Electrocardiography in Measuring QRS Duration for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: The Role of Ventricular Late Potentials

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2014.050304

KIARASH MOHAJER, BSc, JENNY CHENG, BSc, JOHNNY SIU, BSc, KEVIN A. MICHAEL, MBChB, HOSHIAR ABDOLLAH, MD, CHRISTOPHER S. SIMPSON, MD, ADRIAN BARANCHUK, MD, and DAMIAN P. REDFEARN, MD, MRCPI

Division of Cardiology and Department of Physiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia Complicating the Radiofrequency Ablation of Typical Atrial Flutter

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2014.050305

ROBERT KIM, MD, THOMAS WANNENBURG, MD and STEVE HSU, MD

University of Florida Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL