Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070506

MOUSSA MANSOUR, MD, FHRS, FACC

Innovative Approaches to Assess the Impact and Steps to Decrease the Neurological Consequences of Ablation

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070501

SHIVA P. PONAMGI, MD¹, OMAR Z. YASIN, MD, MS², DEEPAK PADMANABHAN, MD³, CHRISTOPHER V. DESIMONE, MD, PhD³ and SAMUEL J. ASIRVATHAM, MD^3,4

¹Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, Austin, MN

²Division of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

³Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

⁴Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Inappropriate ICD Shocks as a Consequence of a Refinement in SVT Discrimination Algorithms

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070502

HERMINE R. POGHOSYAN, MD^1,2, JOHN V. WYLIE, MD, FACC¹ and MICHAEL V. ORLOV, MD^1,3

¹St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Boston, MA

²Astghik Medical Center, Yerevan, Armenia

³The Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI

SVT Discrimination Features in St. Jude Medical ICDs

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070503

TIM MCINTYRE, MS

St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, MN

“Old and New”: Novel and Traditional Medical Technologies in Juxtaposition

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070504

ANAND D. SHAH, MD, MATHEW R. LEVY, BA and MIKHAEL F. EL-CHAMI, MD

Cardiology Division (Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology), Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Obesity, Weight Loss, Cachexia and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2016.070505

USAMA A. DAIMEE, MD, MEHMET K. AKTAS, MD and VALENTINA KUTYIFA, MD, PhD

Cardiology Division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY