1. Antiarrhythmic therapy—the paradigm shifts in 2012: will it be enough to result in improved health care policies?

   • S. Saksena

   EDITOR’S FORUM 15 January 2013 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: the need for studies to assess the efficacy and safety of novel anticoagulants

   • Gerald V. Naccarelli
   • Mario D. Gonzalez

   EDITOR’S FORUM 28 September 2012 Pages: 3 - 4

3. Thermotolerance does not reduce the size or remodeling of radiofrequency lesions in the rat myocardium

   • Luís Felipe dos Santos
   • Ednei Luíz Antonio
   • Guilherme Fenelon

   OriginalPaper 19 October 2012 Pages: 5 - 11

   

4. Ablation time efficiency and lesion volume - in vitro comparison of 4 mm, non irrigated, gold- and platinum-iridium-tip radiofrequency ablation catheters

   • Tibor Balázs
   • Romola Laczkó
   • Tamás Szili-Török

   OriginalPaper 26 October 2012 Pages: 13 - 18

   

5. New insights into typical atrial flutter ablation: extra-isthmus activation time on the flutter wave is predictive of extra-isthmus conduction time after isthmus block

   • Decebal Gabriel Latcu
   • Sok-Sithikun Bun
   • Nadir Saoudi

   OriginalPaper 19 October 2012 Pages: 19 - 25

   

6. Reversal of cardiomyopathy in patients with congestive heart failure secondary to tachycardia

   • Zhao Donghua
   • Peng Jian
   • Xu Dingli

   OriginalPaper 23 October 2012 Pages: 27 - 32

   

7. Impact of respiration on electroanatomical mapping of the right atrium: implication for cavotricuspid isthmus ablation

   • Ermenegildo de Ruvo
   • Serena Dottori
   • Leonardo Calò

   OriginalPaper 23 October 2012 Pages: 33 - 40

   

8. Cryoablation versus radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: results of a prospective randomized study

   • Felipe J. Rodriguez-Entem
   • Víctor Expósito
   • Juan José Olalla-Antolin

   OriginalPaper 19 October 2012 Pages: 41 - 45

   

9. Phrenic nerve palsy during ablation of atrial fibrillation using a 28-mm cryoballoon catheter: predictors and prevention

   • Michael Kühne
   • Sven Knecht
   • Christian Sticherling

   OriginalPaper 23 October 2012 Pages: 47 - 54

   

10. Pulmonary vein re-isolation for atrial fibrillation using duty-cycled phased radiofrequency ablation: safety and efficacy of a primary 2:1 bipolar/unipolar ablation mode

    • Marcus Wieczorek
    • Reinhard Hoeltgen
    • Michael Lukat

    OriginalPaper 25 October 2012 Pages: 55 - 60

    

11. Long-term outcomes (>2 years) of atrial fibrillation ablation using a multi-electrode ablation catheter in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

    • Khang-Li Looi
    • Parag Gajendragadkar
    • David Begley

    OriginalPaper 25 October 2012 Pages: 61 - 69

    

12. Cardiac resynchronization therapy for patients with congenital heart disease: technical challenges

    • Meera Manchanda
    • Christopher J. McLeod
    • Samuel J. Asirvatham

    REVIEWS 19 October 2012 Pages: 71 - 79

    

13. Active fixation mechanism complicates coronary sinus lead extraction and limits subsequent reimplantation targets

    • E. M. Cronin
    • C. P. Ingelmo
    • B. Baranowski

    OriginalPaper 07 August 2012 Pages: 81 - 86

    

14. Riata lead failure with normal electrical lead parameters and normal fluoroscopic appearance

    • Umashankar Lakshmanadoss
    • David Lahoda
    • Pramod Deshmukh

    Case Reports 19 October 2012 Pages: 87 - 89

    

15. Assessment of shoulder pain and shoulder disability in patients with implantable cardioverter–defibrillator

    • Umut Celikyurt
    • Aysen Agacdiken
    • Dilek Ural

    OriginalPaper 20 November 2012 Pages: 91 - 94

16. Statement on matching language to the type of evidence used in describing outcomes data

    • Editors of the HEART Group Journals

    Announcement 10 January 2013 Pages: 95 - 95