Bassiema Ibrahim, MD

Electrophysiology Corner

Initial Clinical Experience with Implantable Loop Recorders

08/01/2008

Syncope is responsible for 5% of emergency department visits and 1% of hospital admissions.1 Syncopal episodes are often too infrequent and unpredictable for detection with conventional ambulatory monitoring techniques. Electrophysiologic...

Syncope is responsible for 5% of...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Electrophysiology Corner

A Blind Comparison of Four Non-Invasive Twelve-Lead Electrocardiogram Algorithms for Predicting Susceptibility to Ventricular Ta

08/01/2008

Cindy Quan ;

Bassiema Ibrahim , MD;

Simcha Pollack , PhD;

Weilun Quan , PhD;

Todd J. Cohen , MD, FACC, FHRS;

QT dispersion (QTD) has been proposed as an indicator of risk for ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT) in different clinical settings (long QT syndrome,2,3 congestive heart failure4 and post-myocardial infarction5–9). However, a major limitation...

QT dispersion (QTD) has been...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology