Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070105

MOUSSA MANSOUR, MD, FHRS, FACC

Pacemaker Programming, Physiologic Pacing Settings, and Clinical Outcomes in Real-world Practice: Results from the OPTI-MIND Clinical Study

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070101

MAURO BIFFI, MD¹, GEMMA PELARGONIO, MD², ALEŠ HAVLĺČCEK, MD³, PAOLO ROSSI, MD⁴, DONATO MELISSANO, MD⁵, GERT KALTOFEN, MD⁶, MAURIZIO MENICHELLI, MD⁷, GABRIELA KALISKA, MD⁸, RAFAEL ROMERO, MD⁹, CIRO GUASTAFERRO, MD¹⁰, GIOVANNI RACITI, MD¹¹, SCOTT WEHREMBERG, MD¹¹, GIUSEPPE BORIANI, MD¹ and TIBOR MALACKY, MD¹²

¹Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

²Cardiovascular Science Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

³Artur Koblitz s.r.o., Arrhythmia services, Pardubice, Kyiv Czech Republic

⁴Department of Cardiology, San Martino University-Hospital, Genova, Italy

⁵Presidio Ospedaliero F. Ferrari Casarano, Lecce, Italy

⁶Kardiologische Gemeinschaftspraxis Kaltofen Schubert Gerner, Chemnitz, Germany

⁷Ospedale Fabrizio Spaziani, Frosinone, Italy

⁸Middle Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

⁹Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario NuestraSeñora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

¹⁰Ospedale Civile San Leonardo, Castellammare di Stabia, Italy

¹¹Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MA

¹²National Institute of Heart Diseases NUSCH, Bratislava, Slovakia

Catheter Ablation at the Forefront: The Tribulations of Clinical Trials

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070103

JASON BRADFIELD, MD and RODERICK TUNG, MD

UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Successful Ablation of Focal Pulmonary Vein Atrial Tachycardia in a Patient with Constrictive Pericarditis

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070102

ENES ELVIN GUL, MD¹, EKREM GULER, MD¹, GAMZE BABUR GULER, MD¹, CENGIZ EROL, MD² and FETHI KILICASLAN, MD¹

¹Department of Cardiology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey

²Department of Radiology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey

Novel Cardiac Device Management System Using Remote Online and Real-time Interrogation with Guided Reprogramming at the Cardiologist’s Office

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070104

ESTEBAN MARTIN KLOOSTERMAN, MD, MURRAY ROSENBAUM, MD, DAVID MISHKEL, MD, JONATHAN SECKLER, MD, JONATHAN ROSMAN, MD, MARTIN EDEP, MD, MARK SALTZMAN, MD, MARK RUBENSTEIN, MD, STEPHEN SERVOSS, MD and THOMAS BARTZOKIS, MD

Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL