ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116… Great review on Chagas Disease.

ICYMI Highlights from Alert-based Management: Novel Approach to CIED Follow Up - BIDMC Smith Center Daniel Kramer #HRS2024

Late Breaking Clinical Trials - Ablation #HRS2024 Commentary by Peter Zimetbaum, MD BIDMC Smith Center 1. Real world data on RF - BIDMC CVI 2. Perspectives on efficiency, costs and safety #EPeeps

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38819346/ VT ablation without the need for VT induction and the use of activation map to better understand the substrate.

Andre d’Avila Find the manuscript here. jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… Privileged to explore scar conduction physiology and advanced mapping with @davilandre and BIDMC VT Center #ablateVT

Amazing to watch Andre d’Avila present seminal work on fixed lines of block to define VT circuits - check out the recent paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @BiosenseWebster Roderick Tung

Enlightened always to see Andre d’Avila present a delicate balance between aggression and safety for tough to treat summit VT/PVCs @BiosenseWebster #AblateVT course: BIDMC MUSC Cardiology MUSC Electrophysiology Kalyanam Shivkumar MD PhD Roderick Tung

Nice redo post-infarct case - given prior inferior infarct we explored the epicardial space and found nice WADLs and channels seen from multiple points of view: sinus, RV pacing, and LV pacing. @davilandre, Fritz Stabenau , BIDMC VT Center , #ablateVT

Infarct VT w/ U-shaped WADL in sinus w/ perfect match with a “dead-end” CT wall thickness channel (inHEART). No surprise the VT isthmus was there. A substrate dead end doesn’t necessarily mean bystander! VT is in 3D! BIDMC VT Center Enrico Ferro, MD @davilandre Roderick Tung

Join us in congratulating PIs Dr. Dan Kramer BIDMC Smith Center & Dr. Issa Dahabreh CAUSALab on the award of their study RAPTOR-CIED from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute! Read more about the project here: bidmc.org/about-bidmc/ne… Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The BIDMC EP Section and VT Center welcome Gregory Michaud as the new Section Chief of the Electrophysiology Service at BIDMC! @davilandre Peter Zimetbaum, MD BIDMC CVI

Peter Zimetbaum, MD and I had a great outcome for our patient BIDMC w/ #pacemaker +MSSA bacteremia w/ 2x2cm right atrial mass: #ICE imaging essential to direct #alphavac & remove mass with one single manual aspiration. Given PFO, this greatly enhanced safety of lead extraction!

Learn from BIDMC VT Center Faculty on how to leverage high density mapping to ablate VT with minimal (or no) VT induction.

BIDMC VT Center Faculty with Medtronic and Exponent rethink and re-examine the safety of cremating patients with implantable electronic devices. What happens when the guidelines are put to the test? Timothy Maher, MD @davilandre Nathan Kong, MD Peter Zimetbaum, MD, Dan Kramer, Jon Waks

Join us at the 19th VT Symposium in NYC Oct 11-12 in NYC in person or online. BIDMC VT Center faculty Jonathan Waks and Timothy Maher, MD present on vectorcardiogram predictors of VT inducibility and multiwavefront VT substrate mapping vtsymposium.com VT Symposium @bidmccvi

CVCT - CardioVascular Clinical Trialists: It was great to present our JAMA SAFE-IVC analysis with U.S. FDA, and see so much interest from the RCT community on how we can use trial data and "real-world evidence" #RWE as complementary tools. Thank you Dr. Robert M. Califf & Shirley Wang for moderating!

🚨Mechanical circulatory support in high-risk #PCI: state-of-the-art review in EuroIntervention covers all available evidence (#RCT+#RWE) from #MCS on the market (#ECMO, TandemHeart, Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Heart Recovery #Impella, #IABP) & new devices like Magenta Medical Ltd. & BostonSci Cardiology Vitalyst.

Which map here is VT and which is substrate? A key to mapping fixed lines of block during VT ablation to make the WADLs best match the VT boundaries is to strategically choose a pacing site close to the presumed exit. BIDMC VT Center #ablateVT 1/2🧵

The BIDMC VT Center team values its collaborations in efforts to help innovate VT ablation.

Tune in to see how BIDMC VT Center Faculty approach VT substrate mapping by letting physiology lead the way with the WADL approach.