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A 61-year-old man presenting with chest pain and the de Winter ECG pattern was found on emergency angiography to have proximal left circumflex artery occlusion rather than the classically associated LAD occlusion, representing only the second such case reported in the literature.

First-line pulsed field catheter ablation outperformed antiarrhythmic drug therapy for rhythm control at one year in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, with similar serious adverse event rates.

ACC, AHA, and HRS jointly updated the 2015 advanced training statement for clinical cardiac electrophysiology, adding new required competencies and revised procedural benchmarks for fellowship training.

There needs to be increased awareness among primary care doctors and general cardiologists that patients with persistent symptomatic AF are sometimes better served by promptly scheduling a cardioversion while waiting for an appointment with an electrophysiologist.

64% of those who self-administered Cardamyst converted to sinus rhythm within 30 minutes compared with 31% who received placebo.

“Catheter ablation reduced risks for ischemic stroke after 30 days (relative risk 0.63), mortality (RR 0.73), and heart failure hospitalization (RR 0.68), but increased ischemic stroke risk at or before 30 days (RR 6.81).”