Chung-Hsing Lin

Taipei Medical University | TMU · Division of Cardiology

Background Atrial fibrillatihon(AF) prevalence increases with age. Aging affects the substrate properties of the left atrium (LA) and the outcomes of catheter ablation for treating AF. We investigated the AF trigger distribution and catheter ablation outcomes in patients of different ages with AF. Methods 1585 patients with AF (1181 paroxysmal and...

This study aimed to investigate the electromechanical function detected by acoustic cardiography before and after radiofrequency ablation therapy (RFA) in paroxysmal AF (PAF) patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Seventy-five symptomatic PAF patients and 69 patients without arrhythmia were enrolled. Thirty-seven PAF pat...

Introduction Accurate identification of slow conducting regions in patients with scar‐related atrial tachycardia (AT) is difficult using conventional electrogram annotation for cardiac electroanatomic mapping (EAM). Estimating delays between neighboring mapping sites is a potential option for activation map computation. We describe our initial expe...

Background:Telomere length is a biologic aging marker. This study investigated leukocyte telomere length (LTL) as a new biomarker to predict recurrence after paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) ablation. Methods and Results:A total of 131 participants (26 healthy individuals and 105 symptomatic PAF patients) were enrolled. PAF patients (54.1±10.8...

Background Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) induce subtle cardiac dysfunction is missed by echocardiography. We evaluated acoustic cardiography for detection of early electromechanical dysfunction in patients with idiopathic PVCs and normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and investigated the impact of radio frequency ablation (...

Purpose: In spite of several proposed predictors for premature ventricular complex (PVC)-induced cardiomyopathy (PVC-CMP), the specific ECG features of idiopathic right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) PVC-CMP remain unknown. Methods: A total of 130 patients (49 males, mean age 44 years) with symptomatic and drug-refractory idiopathic RVOT PVCs...

Purpose: There are few reports describing ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) from the crux and the corresponding endocardial site, i.e., the basal inferior segment of the interventricular septum (IVS). We aimed to investigate a distinct clinical group of VAs arising from the endocardium at this area in patients with structural heart diseases (SHD). Me...

Nonischemic cardiomyopathies (NICMs) are composed of variable disease entities, including primary and secondary cardiomyopathies. Determining the etiology of NICM provides pivotal roles of not only the understanding of the individual pathogenesis, but also the clinical management, such as risk stratification, pharmacological treatment, and interven...

Introduction: Various ECG algorithms have been proposed to identify the origin of idiopathic outflow tract (OT)-ventricular arrhythmia (VA). However, electrocardiographic features of failed and recurrent right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) ablation of idiopathic OT-VAs have not been clearly elucidated. Methods and results: A total of 264 cons...

Non-ischemic cardiomyopathies (NICMs) are composed of variable disease entities, including primary and secondary cardiomyopathies. Determining the etiology of NICM provides pivotal roles of not only the understanding of the individual pathogenesis, but also the clinical management, such as risk stratification, pharmacological treatment, and interve...

Diurnal variations in ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VAs) have been demonstrated in idiopathic arrhythmogenic heart disease. The electrophysiological characteristics of diurnal variations in idiopathic right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) VA have not previously been elucidated. Sixty-two consecutive patients undergoing catheter ablation for idiopa...

Background: There are limited literatures regarding the non-pulmonary vein (NPV) triggers in long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (LSPAF). The goal of the present study was to investigate the characteristics and long-term outcome of catheter ablation among these patients. Methods: The study included 776 patients (age 53.59±11.38years-old...

Backgrounds: Substrate property is related to the genesis and maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of substrate property on the electrocardiogram (ECG) in patients with AF originating from the superior vena cava (SVC). Methods and results: Seventy-six patients with AF originating from SVC un...

Introduction The signal characteristics of intracardiac bipolar electrograms at the origin of idiopathic RVOT-VT during sinus rhythm remain unclear. Objective The study sought to develop a novel real-time/online technique, simultaneous amplitude frequency electrogram transformation (SAFE-T), to quantify and localize the diseased ventricular substr...

Derivation of the instantaneous amplitude and frequency from Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) for the computation of Simultaneous Amplitude Frequency Electrogram Transformation (SAFE-T) value. (DOCX)

Histogram of the SAFE-T value of local electrograms from the right ventricle. The reference line was set at the cut-off SAFE-T value of 3.0 Hz?mV. (TIF)

The schematic illustration of the derivation of the Simultaneous Amplitude Frequency Electrogram Transformation (SAFE-T) value from HHT using temporal frequency analysis of normal (left panel) and abnormal (right panel) local bipolar electrograms. (A) shows the ECG (upper panel), local electrogram signal from distal electrode of the ablation cathet...

Data set of the substrate and signal characteristics at the VT origins and surrounding normal myocardium. (PDF)

Aims: Whether the distribution of scar in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) plays a role in predicting different types of ventricular arrhythmias is unknown. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic value of scar distribution in patients with ARVC. Methods and results: We studied 80 consecutive ARVC patients (46 men, m...

The long-term clinical impact of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) on mortality and morbidity has not been fully studied. This study aimed to investigate the association between the burden of PVCs and adverse clinical outcome. A total of 5778 subjects, who were pacemaker-free and ventricular tachycardia-free at baseline, received 24-hour elect...

Background: Aortic dilatation was frequently observed in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and non-pulmonary vein (PV) triggers are important for mapping and ablation of AF. We hypothesized that the aortic encroachment area over left atrium (LA) could contribute to the local substrate characteristics. Methods: We studied 32 consecutive pati...

Introduction: Although rare, some paroxysmal atrial fibrillations (AF) still progress despite radiofrequency (RF) ablation. In the study, we evaluated the long-term efficacy of RF ablation and the predictors of AF progression. Methods: A total of 589 paroxysmal AF patients (404 men and 185 women; aged 54 ± 12 years) who received three-dimensiona...

Background: The impact of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) on the risk of thromboembolic event and clinical outcomes in patients without structural heart disease remains undetermined. This study aimed to evaluate the association between NSVT and clinical outcomes. Methods: The study population of 5903 patients was culled from the "Re...

Cause of death. Presence of NSVT was associated with death due to CV events, including heart failure and myocardial infarction. CV indicates cardiovascular; HF, heart failure; MI, myocardial infarction; SCD, sudden cardiac death. (TIF)

Crude hazard ratio for long-term outcome. (DOCX)

CV hospitalization during the first year. (DOCX)

Ventricular arrhythmia originating from the papillary muscle (VA-PM) is characterized by multiple exits and morphologic alternations. The conventional ablation strategy relies on activation mapping, but the results might be suboptimal. The purpose of this study was to propose a novel pacemapping strategy aimed at multiple exits using high-output s...

Aims The detailed electrophysiological characteristics of patients with both atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) and atrial flutter (AFL) have not been clarified. This study investigated the related electrophysiological differences in a large series of patients undergoing radiofrequency catheter ablation of AVNRT. Methods and res...

Unlabelled: Variant angina presenting acute chest pain and ST elevation on electrocardiogram accounts for an underdiagnosed scenario in acute coronary syndrome and contributes to syncope as a consequence of ventricular arrhythmia. Here, we report a case of a 48-year-old man with a recent onset of chest pain and palpitations followed by syncope. Ho...