Monitoreo remoto en dispositivos implantables / Remote moitoring and implantable devices

Mechanical assist devices are being used with increasing frequency, for remote monitoring for the care of patients through information received at distance by mean of the technology of telecommunications. The aim of this report was to describe the alerts received from patients implanted with devices with the ability of transmission at distance, in order to evaluate their causes and the therapeutic measures introduced, when in these patients is instituted a permanent remote monitoring instead of a remote follow-up. The role of remote monitoring and follow-up of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators, is revised.

Ablación por radiofrecuencia de fibrilación auricular paroxística y persistente / Radiofrequency ablation of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation

La ablación por radiofrecuencia (ARF) es aceptada en la actualidad como tratamiento de la fibrilación auricular (FA) paroxística y persistente. El objetivo del presente trabajo es comparar los resultados de la ablación por radiofrecuencia con diferentes técnicas...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFA) is one of the currently accepted treatments for paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Different approaches are currently used. To analyze the results of RFA in patients (pts.) with paroxysmal and persistent AF performing different techniques...

Cardiodefibrilador automático implantable: incidencia, causas y predictors de mortalidad. Valor de los registros prospectivos / Implantable automatic cardiodefibrillator: incidence causes and predictors of mortality. Value of the prospective records

The implantable automatic cardiodefibrilator (IACD) has proved to be an effective tool in the prevention of both primary and secondary sudden death. Even so, the mortality of patients receiving an IACD still remains elevated. Recent data, obtained from the secondary analysis of different studies, suggest that the discharges of the deice, between other clinical variables, both electrocardiiographic and ultrasonographic could be associated to a higher mortality, maybe due to a contribution to the progression of the cardiac insufficiency. The aims of this report were to evaluate the incidence of mortality, causes of death and the time since the implantation till the death, to analyze appropriate an inappropriate shocks and other variaables as potential predictors of mortality in patients with IACD. The results obtained in this study are detailed in the article