This pilot study shows that EAM-guided CNA strategy is feasible and safe in VVS patients resistant to conventional therapies.

Focused or extensive vagal ganglia ablation may be a potential alternative to pacemaker implantation in a carefully selected patient population. In contrast to pharmacological therapy and pacemaker implantation, ganglia ablation is designed to get to the root of the problem: disturbances in the intrinsic cardiac autonomic nervous system. This novel technique should be evaluated in large-scale, randomized, controlled trials.

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Most of the patients demonstrated contact between the LA occluder disk and the aorta throughout the cardiac cycle. 3DTEE may be useful in identifying patients at greater risk for aortic erosion.

Arterial stiffness is increased in patients with premature CAD. EAo of the anterior wall of ascending aorta measured with pulse-wave TDI echocardiography is correlated with arterial stiffening and is decreased in patients with premature CAD.