By: Jim
Agree with your column. The valve patient death on the table at the TCT during a live case should have been the end to live cases for PR purposes.
View ArticleBy: Michael M Durand
Larry– I am of two minds. On the one hand, I complement “Today” for delving into a subject more substantial than the latest Hollywood who-ha. There was once a time when programs such as Today were...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Wes
Nice review. I couldn't <a href="http://drwes.blogspot.com/2010/02/media-robotics-and-atrial-fibrillation.html" rel="nofollow">agree</a> with you more. The fact that she used the company's...
View ArticleBy: John Sinclair
I thought the report was engaging, professional, and extremely valuable in terms of increasing awareness and educating those afflicted with AF that ablation therapy may be able to improve their quality...
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By: Doug
Wes, I enjoy your blog and your perspective, always. With all due respect, there is a huge success rate disparity between different centers both in the JNJ Thermocool data set and in AF registry II so...
View ArticleBy: Larry Husten
John Sinclair, I’m going to take a wild guess that you work for industry. Care to disclose? In any case, I’d be very interested to see a few citations to back up your support of the 85-90% success...
View ArticleBy: phil collins
The value of exposing this new technique to the public (and even medical professionals) is immeasurable. People living with AF are frequently depressed after experiencing deteriorating health. If this...
View ArticleBy: John Sinclair
Larry, I do not work for any medical equipment or device maker and have never recieved and form of compensation from any firm in the industry. I am a portfolio manager with allocations in many sectors,...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Wes
Mr. Sinclair- I wonder if you would be so kind to point us to the peer-reviewed journal articles discussing the success rates quoted in the piece and reviewing the “precision” claims made by the...
View ArticleBy: Doug
Some of you guys need to calm down and look at your own centers with a critical eye instead of saying somebody else is making up data. A while back, I extracted some data from the latest AF registry...
View ArticleBy: Doug
Hah. That didn’t work either. Here is a link to the table http://www.afibbers.net/forum/read.php?f=8&i=12573&t=12573 user name = afibbers password = 2sesame
View ArticleBy: Larry Husten
I don’t want to fall into the trap of debating true believers like John Sinclair, so I’ll just make a few observations: 1. Even if Sinclair doesn’t work for industry he obviously has financial...
View ArticleBy: Doug
I didn’t write Snyderman’s job description at NBC but why should society have a problem with live medical procedures? Particularly low risk procedures? I went through some of her other episodes and...
View ArticleBy: Doug
Larry, you and Wes are way out of date with regard to success rate. Sinclair shouldn’t have to do the work for you guys. Just google it. I mentioned Haissaguerre persistent AF results in my post. This...
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[...] am CST: An even more scathing review of the journalistic tactics used for this piece appear at Cardiobrief.org.Musings of a cardiologist and cardiac [...]
View ArticleBy: Dr. Wes
Doug- Interesting reference you pulled. 24 of 60 patients (60%) were “successful” on the first try. Only after repeat ablation procedures for atrial tachycardias and macroreentrant atrial arrhythmias...
View ArticleBy: Sheafe Ewing
As a patient, and retired physician, I have had two ablations done before …. years ago…. I now have recurrent atrial fibrillation and contemplate having the exact same procedure done by one of Dr....
View ArticleBy: Amanda
I get your concern about reporting as a success before it’s over and recording a live heart operation, but relax. Arruda is my electrophysiologist and he’s wonderful. Sometimes arrythmias come back due...
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