EP — Europace Volume 16 No. 11 November 2014 EDITORIALS Understanding the atrial ﬁbrillation substrate: the case for repeat catheter ablation Marta Sitges and Sı´lvia Montserrat 1541 Are we able to predict the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome? Pieter G. Postema 1543 CLINICAL RESEARCH 1546 A U-shaped association between consumption of marine n-3 fatty acids and development of atrial ﬁbrillation/atrial ﬂutter—a Danish cohort study Thomas A. Rix, Albert M. Joensen, Sam Riahi, Søren Lundbye-Christensen, Anne Tjønneland, Erik B. Schmidt, and Kim Overvad 1554 Ablation for atrial ﬁbrillation Iatrogenic atrial septal defects following atrial ﬁbrillation transcatheter ablation: a relevant entity? Matteo Anselmino, Marco Scaglione, Alberto Battaglia, Silvia Muccioli, Davide Sardi, Giuseppe Azzaro, Lucia Garberoglio, Salvatore Miceli, and Fiorenzo Gaita 1562 Predictors of recurrence after a repeat ablation procedure for paroxysmal atrial ﬁbrillation: role of left atrial enlargement Ri-Bo Tang, Xian-Liang Yan, Jian-Zeng Dong, Jerome Kalifa, De-Yong Long, Rong-Hui Yu, Rong Bai, Jun-Ping Kang, Jia-Hui Wu, Cai-Hua Sang, Man Ning, Chen-Xi Jiang, Mohamed Salim, and Chang-Sheng Ma 1569 Sudden death and ICDs Barriers to patients eligible for screening investigations and insertion of primary prevention implantable cardioverter deﬁbrillators Praveen P Sadarmin, Kelvin CK Wong, Kim Rajappan, Yaver Bashir, and Timothy R Betts 1575 Awareness of indications for device therapy among a broad range of physicians: a survey study ˚hlberg ¨binette, Lars H. Lund, Fredrik Gadler, and Marcus Sta Clara Hu 1580 Pregnancy in women with an implantable cardioverter-deﬁbrillator: is it safe? ´phane Boule ´, Lionel Ovart, Christelle Marquie ´, Edward Botcherby, Didier Klug, Claude Kouakam, Ste ´don-Moreau, Ludivine Wissocque, Jonathan Meurice, Dominique Lacroix, Franc¸ois Brigadeau, Laurence Gue and Salem Kacet 1587 Pacing and resynchronization therapy Reduction of unnecessary right ventricular pacing by managed ventricular pacing and search AV 1 algorithms in pacemaker patients: 12-month follow-up results of a randomized study Silin Chen, Keping Chen, Qianmin Tao, Liangrong Zheng, Farong Shen, Shulin Wu, Jie Fan, Geng Xu, Li Wang, Xiaohong Zhou, and Shu Zhang for the COMPARE Study Investigators 1595 Patient-assessed short-term positive response to cardiac resynchronization therapy is an independent predictor of long-term mortality ¨ijer, Johan Brandt, Lingwei Wang, Christian Reitan, Zoltan Bakos, Pyotr G Platonov, Carl-Johan Ho and Rasmus Borgquist 1603 Electrophysiology and ablation Is the 12-lead electrocardiogram during antidromic circus movement tachycardia helpful in predicting the ablation site in atriofascicular pathways? Eduardo Back Sternick, Yash Lokhandwala, Shomu Bohora, Carl Timmermans, Priscila Reis Martins, ˜o Dias, Frederico Soares Correia, and Hein J.J. Wellens Liana Valada 1610 Downloaded from by guest on October 28, 2014 Atrial ﬁbrillation Clinical correlates of echocardiographic tissue velocity imaging abnormalities of the left atrial wall during atrial ﬁbrillation Ione Limantoro, Cees B. de Vos, Tammo Delhaas, Bob Weijs, Yuri Blaauw, Ulrich Schotten, Bas Kietselaer, Ron Pisters, and Harry J.G.M. Crijns Features of accessory pathways in adult Ebstein’s anomaly Wei Wei, Xianzhang Zhan, Yumei Xue, Xianhong Fang, Hongtao Liao, Hai Deng, Yuanhong Liang, and Shulin Wu 1619 Patient reported outcome measures for cardiac ablation procedures: a multicentre pilot to develop a new questionnaire Kathleen L. Withers, Judith White, Grace Carolan-Rees, Hannah Patrick, Peter O’Callaghan, Stephen Murray, David Cunningham, Kathryn A. Wood, Mauro Lencioni, and Michael Grifﬁth 1626 The value of adrenaline in the induction of supraventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiological laboratory Gabriel Cismaru, Radu Rosu, Lucian Muresan, Mihai Puiu, Marius Andronache, Erika Hengan, Daniel Ispas, Gabriel Gusetu, Dana Pop, Petru Adrian Mircea, and Dumitru Zdrenghea 1634 Channelopathies New electrocardiographic criteria to differentiate the Type-2 Brugada pattern from electrocardiogram of healthy athletes with r0 -wave in leads V1/V2 ´n Baranchuk, Antoni Baye ´s-De-Luna, Josep Brugada, Diego Goldwasser, Lucio Capulzini, Guillem Serra, Adria ´n Brugada, David Arazo, Araceli Boraita, Maria-Eugenia Heras, Javier Garcia-Niebla, Roberto Elosua, Ramo and Pedro Brugada 1639 Exon 3 deletion of RYR2 encoding cardiac ryanodine receptor is associated with left ventricular non-compaction Seiko Ohno, Masato Omura, Mihoko Kawamura, Hiromi Kimura, Hideki Itoh, Takeru Makiyama, Hiroya Ushinohama, Naomasa Makita, and Minoru Horie 1646 EHRA/ACCA/EAPCI POSITION PAPER 1655 EP WIRE Management of malfunctioning and recalled pacemaker and deﬁbrillator leads: results of the European Heart Rhythm Association survey Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Nikolaos Dagres, Heidi Estner, Laurent Pison, Derick Todd, and Carina BlomstromLundqvist, conducted by the Scientiﬁc Initiative Committee, European Heart Rhythm Association 1674 BASIC SCIENCE Characterization of the impact of catheter— tissue contact force in lesion formation during cavo-tricuspid isthmus ablation in an experimental swine model ´s, Antonio Herna ´ndez Madrid, Antonia Delgado, Laura Carrizo, Carlos Pindado, Roberto Matı´a France ´n Moro Serrano, and Jose ´ L. Zamorano Go ´mez Concepcio 1679 Bipolar ablation for deep intra-myocardial circuits: human ex vivo development and in vivo experience ´phane Masse ´, Sigfus Gizurarson, Danna Spears, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Talha Farid, Andrew C.T. Ha, Ste Marjan Kusha, Vijay S. Chauhan, Krishnakumar Nair, Louise Harris, Eugene Downar, and Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar 1684 Activation of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 improves cardiac electrical changes in ventricular repolarization in streptozotocin-induced hyperglycaemic rats Danielle C.O. Coutinho, Gustavo Monnerat-Cahli, Anderson J. Ferreira, and Emiliano Medei 1689 CASE EXPRESS REPORTS Cooling of the atrioventricular node to unmask an accessory pathway Per Insulander, Hamid Bastani, and Mats Jensen-Urstad 1594 Osteomyelitis of the clavicle following to a pacemaker implantation Giacomo Mugnai, Gabriele Pesarini, and Corrado Vassanelli 1618 Peritricuspid reentrant ventricular tachycardia in Ebstein’s anomaly Senthil Kumar, Anandaraja Subramanian, and Raja J. Selvaraj 1633 Short QT syndrome and idiopathic ventricular tachycardia in a 28-year-old young man: a potential disease-speciﬁc link? Saeed Sadeghian, Ali Bozorgi, and Zeinab Safkhani 1645 Ventricular ﬁbrillation storm in a child Tom Einbinder, Alexander Lowenthal, and Rami Fogelman 1654 Downloaded from by guest on October 28, 2014 Cardiac arrhythmias in acute coronary syndromes: position paper from the joint EHRA, ACCA, and EAPCI task force ¨m Lundqvist, Josep Brugada Terradellas, A. John Camm, Gerhard Hindricks, Bulent Gorenek, Carina Blomstro Kurt Huber, Paulus Kirchhof, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Gulmira Kudaiberdieva, Tina Lin, Antonio Raviele, Massimo Santini, Roland Richard Tilz, Marco Valgimigli, Marc A. Vos, Christian Vrints, and Uwe Zeymer LETTERS TO THE EDITOR How to temporarily pace a pacemaker-dependent patient after lead extraction for device infection? Giulio Zucchelli, Giovanni Coluccia, and Maria Grazia Bongiorni 1697 Lack of efﬁcacy of radiofrequency catheter ablation in Andersen— Tawil syndrome: are we targeting the right spot? ´rquez, Santiago Nava, Jorge Go ´mez, Luis Colı´n, and Pedro Iturralde Manlio F. Ma 1697 In cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation there is no correlation between biomarker release indicating myocardial necrosis and cumulative freezing time ¨rg Neuzner, Thomas Dietze, Martin Bobzin, Robert Paliege, and Rainer Gradaus Jo 1698 Author reply ¨rnkranz, Daniela Dugo, Laura Perrotta, Melanie Gunawardene, Frank Bode, Stefano Bordignon, Alexander Fu Anne Klemt, Bernd Nowak, Britta Schullte-Hahn, Boris Schmidt, and K.R. Julian Chun 1698 IMAGES IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Iatrogenic extra-pleural haematoma following cardiac device implantation Charles Nadeau-Routhier, Andres Enriquez, and Adrian Baranchuk 1673 Downloaded from by guest on October 28, 2014 Open Access Paper Visit EP —EUROPACE’s mobile site http://m.europace.oxfordjournals.org/ www.europace.oxfordjournals.org