Letter from the Editor in Chief

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15106

Dr. DEVI NAIR, MD, FACC, FHRS

Snaring via a Femoral Approach to Facilitate Transvenous Lead Extraction of an Infected Right Ventricular Lead Jailed by a Bioprosthetic Tricuspid Valve

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15105

SAPAN BHUTA, MD,¹ SENA COLAK, MD,¹ ALEENA I. ARIF,¹ and MUHAMMAD R. AFZAL, MD¹

¹Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15103

SYED MUHAMMAD IBNE ALI JAFFARI, MBBS,¹ FNU KARISHMA, MBBS,² SYEDA UROOBA SHAH, MBBS,³ ROBISH KISHORE, MBBS,² AVINASH KUMAR, MBBS,⁴ FNU KAJAL, MBBS,² MAIRA KHALID, MBBS,⁵ AVESH KUMAR, MBBS,⁴ HUDA ANUM, MBBS,⁴ ZARMINA ALI, MBBS,⁴ RIMSHA IRFAN, MBBS,⁴ MUHAMMAD AHSAN NASEER KHAN, MBBS,⁶ ABDUL REHMAN SALEEM, MBBS,⁷ HAMZA ISLAM, MBBS,⁸ and RABIA ISLAM, MBBS⁸

¹Department of Medicine, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan

²Department of Medicine, Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College, Sukkur, Pakistan

³Department of Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

⁴Department of Medicine, Bahria University Medical and Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan

⁵Department of Medicine, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

⁶Department of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan

⁷Department of Medicine, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

⁸Department of Medicine, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Carotid Sinus Massage During Head-up Tilt Testing Can Predict the Test Outcome: Implications for Its Use as a Screening Tool in Patients with Unexplained Syncope

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15101

ATUL PRAKASH, MD,¹ JULIE TRUONG, MD,² ADENIYI ADELAKUN, MD,² and RAVNIT SINGH, MD³

¹Division of Cardiology, St. Mary’s General Hospital, Passaic, NJ, USA

²Division of Internal Medicine, St. Mary’s General Hospital, Passaic, NJ, USA

³Division of Cardiology, Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA

Implantation of an Extravascular Implantable Defibrillator Using a Substernal Lead in a Patient with Previous Cardiac Surgery

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15104

ALEXANDER BREITENSTEIN, MD,¹ JEAN-YVES DELAITE, MD,² and NICOLAS DAYAL, MD³

¹Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

²Cardiology Office, Nyon, Switzerland

³Cardiology and Electrophysiology, Hôpital de la Tour, Meyrin, Switzerland

Challenges to Contemporary Wide Complex Tachycardia Criteria: A Single-center Case Series of 1:1 Atrial Flutter

DOI: 10.19102/icrm.2024.15102

GARRETT M. SNIPES, MD,¹ JACOB N. BLACKWELL, MD,¹ and PRASHANT D. BHAVE, MD¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA