Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14096

MOUSSA MANSOUR, MD, FHRS, FACC

Association Between β-thalassemia and Atrial Fibrillation: Insights from the United States National Inpatient Sample

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14095

WAEL ABDELMOTTALEB, MD, MSC,¹ AHMED MARAEY, MD, FACP,² MUSTAFA OZBAY, MD,¹ HADEER ELSHARNOBY, MD,³ MAHMOUD KHALIL, MD,⁴ ANDREA NATALE, MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC,⁵ and MOHAMED AL RAWAHI, MD, MSC, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS⁶

¹Department of Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

²Department of Internal Medicine, CHI St. Alexius Health, Bismarck, ND, USA

³Department of Internal Medicine, Carle Foundation, Urbana, IL, USA

⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, NY, USA

⁵Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA

⁶Department of Medicine, Cardiology Unit, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman

Virtual Reality–based Methods for Training Novice Electrophysiology Trainees—A Pilot Study

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14091

BENJAMIN GORBATY, MD,¹ SUSANA ARANGO, MD,^1,2 DAVID BUYCK, MS,^1,3 RYAN C. JAMES, PhD,⁴ SAMANTHA T. PORTER, PhD,³ PAUL IAIZZO, PhD, FHRS,² TJÖRVI E. PERRY, MD, MMSc,¹ and STEPHEN SESLAR, MD, PhD⁵

¹Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

²Department of Surgery, The Visible Heart^® Laboratories and the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

³Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

⁴Dopl Technologies, Seattle, WA, USA

⁵Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

Atrial Late Activation Mapping Predicts the Critical Isthmus of Left Atrial Re-entrant Tachycardia

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14092

HIKMET YORGUN, MD,^1,2 CEM ÇÖTELI, MD,¹ and KUDRET AYTEMIR, MD¹

¹Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

²Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Validation of a Heart Failure Risk Score in a Cohort of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Patients Under Remote Monitoring: Results from the TriageHF™ Algorithm

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14093

ISABEL CARDOSO, MD,¹ PEDRO SILVA CUNHA, MD,² SÉRGIO LARANJO, MD, PhD, PGDipHM, FESC, FACC,^1,3 ANDRÉ GRAZINA, MD,¹ JOSÉ MIGUEL VIEGAS, MD,¹ GUILHERME PORTUGAL, MD,^2,3 BRUNO VALENTE, MD,² ANA LOUSINHA, PhD,² PEDRO BRÁS, MD,¹ MANUEL BRÁS,² RUI C. FERREIRA, MD,¹ and MÁRIO OLIVEIRA, MD, PhD, FESC, FHRS, FACC, FEHRA^2,3,4

¹Cardiology Service, Central Lisbon Hospital and University Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

²Arrhythmology, Pacing, and Electrophysiology Unit, Cardiology Service, Central Lisbon Hospital and University Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

³Institute of Physiology and CCUL, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

⁴Cardiology Center, Hospital CUF Tejo, Lisbon, Portugal

Transient ST-segment Elevation During Atrial Fibrillation Ablation from Septal Stretch by a Multipolar Mapping Catheter

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2023.14094

KHALIL KANJWAL, MD, FHRS,¹ KARAH M. SORENSEN, BAS, RT(R), RCIS,¹ ASIM KICHLOO, MD,¹ and IBRAHIM SHAH, MD, FACC¹

¹Department of Cardiology, McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital, Lansing, MI, USA