Advances in Substrate Characterization and Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to announce this Special Issue on “Advances in Substrate Characterization and Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias”. Ventricular arrhythmias are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, presenting with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from benign premature ventricular contractions to life-threatening conditions such as sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.  In the last decades, technological advances in non-invasive imaging modalities and electroanatomic mapping led to a better understanding of the mechanisms and substrate of ventricular arrhythmias and to an improvement in patients risk stratification and treatment. New non-invasive mapping modalities as well as ablation techniques represent the challenges and the future direction of clinical electrophysiology.  The aim of this Special Issue is to provide the readers with a comprehensive overview on state-of-the-art methods for ventricular arrhythmias substrate characterization including electroanatomic mapping, cardiac magnetic resonance, nuclear imaging, intracardiac echocardiography, electrocardiographic mapping as well as established treatment modalities and emerging perspectives. We are therefore looking forward to receiving your review articles on this topic.

Dr. Gaetano Nucifora and Dr. Daniele Muser

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