Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13103

MOUSSA MANSOUR, MD, FHRS, FACC

Designing an Efficient and Quality-focused Integrated Atrial Fibrillation Care Center

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13107

JOSHUA SILVERSTEIN, MD, FHRS,^1,2 PAUL D. VAROSY, MD, FHRS,³ BRIGHAM GODFREY, MSHCT,⁴ CHRISTOPHER COOPER, RN,⁴ ALLYSON VARLEY, PhD,⁵ ANIL RAJENDRA, MD, FHRS,⁴ GUSTAVO MORALES, MD,⁴ and JOSE OSORIO, MD, FHRS^4,5

¹Mount Carmel Health System, Columbus, OH, USA

²Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

³VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

⁴Arrhythmia Institute at Grandview, Birmingham, AL, USA

⁵Heart Rhythm Clinical and Research Solution, Innovation Depot, Birmingham, AL, USA

Bepridil Might be Potent Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019–related Electrical Storm in Brugada Syndrome

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13106

AKINORI HIGAKI, MD, PhD¹

¹Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, Hypertension & Nephrology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Japan

The Frog Sign Revisited

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13101

CHRISTOPHER J. HO, BS¹ and REGINALD T. HO, MD, FHRS²

¹Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

²Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Does Cardiac Contractility Modulation Therapy Reduce Atrial Fibrillation Burden?

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13104

JAE WOOK SHIN, MD,¹ RAMI ATOOT, BSc,², MARISSA HEYER, MD,² and SAMEER JAMAL, MD³

¹Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical Schoolm, Newark, NJ, USA

²Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ, USA

³Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ, USA

Differences According to Sex in Short-term Clinical Outcomes After Supraventricular Tachycardia Catheter Ablation: Insights from the Nationwide Readmission Database

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13105

MAHMOUD KHALIL, MD, MSc,^1,2 AHMED MARAEY, MD,³ MUHAMMAD HAISUM MAQSOOD, MD,¹ AHMED M. ELZANATY, MD, MPH,⁴ MAHMOUD SALEM, MD, MSc,⁵ AHMED YOUNES, MD,⁶ HADEER ELSHARNOBY, MBChB,² KENNETH ONG, MD,⁷ and MOHAMED SHOKR, MD⁸

¹Internal Medicine Department, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, NY, USA

²Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

³Department of Internal Medicine, CHI St. Alexius Health/University of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND, USA

⁴Cardiovascular Medicine Department, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

⁵Center for Advanced Heart and Lung Diseases, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

⁶Internal Medicine Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

⁷Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, New York, NY, USA

⁸Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology, NYU Langone Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Cardiac Contractility Modulation: A Technical Review

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2022.13102

AARON B. HESSELSON, MD, BSEE, FACC, FHRS, CCDS¹

¹University of Kentucky Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA