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William H. Sauer, MD

@wsauer.bsky.social

Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at The Brigham. Clinical Innovation. Bioengineering. Ablation Biophysics. Dedicated to the academic mission. #EPeeps

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Prevalence of Undiagnosed OSA in Patients With All Patterns of Atrial Fibrillation: View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

Symptomatic atrial fibrillation may be the presenting sign for undiagnosed sleep apnea. This is another way we can help our patients. A privilege to be part of this project.

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Utilizing stored implanted cardiac defibrillator electrograms to target localized fascicular denetworking in catheter ablation of ventricular fibrillation

Our star EP Fellow Rob Kerley (winner of the VT Innovation Award) wrote up our experience using ICD electrograms to target fascicular substrate to ablate VF. When combined with a HPSD RF we observed very favorable outcomes.

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Leadless pacemakers are unaffected by external beam radiation in a phantom model Radiation therapy has the potential to interfere with the function of implanted pacemakers. However, both pacemakers and radiation therapy have undergone significant advancements over the last…

We did a very thorough evaluation using a phantom model with leadless pacemakers exposed to clinically relevant radiation doses. We tried our best, but we were unable to create any artifact or impact battery life.

12.11.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rapid staining protocol for electroporated potato models: a novel approach for evaluating pulsed field ablation lesions - Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology -

We perfected rapid staining of our potato model (el modelo de la papa) to quickly assess PFA lesion characteristics. This has been critical for PFA education and research.

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Outcomes of pulsed-field ablation with low to zero fluoroscopy utilization for atrial fibrillation treatment Radiation use for medical procedures should be based on the guiding principle of β€˜As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA)’, which recommends minimizing or

Free read from #Europace. Zero-fluoroscopy and low-fluoroscopy workflows using Varipulse in the AdmIRE trial yielded favorable outcomes.

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Evaluation of variable inter-pulse delay and timing on pulsed field ablation lesion characteristics

Free read at @JICE_EP. There are many variables to consider for PFA. We examined one parameter (interpulse delay) and found that lesions were larger when the time between pulses was increased, regardless of total energy delivered.

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[Ep. 93] A Discussion of Safety of Pulsed Field Ablation in More than 17,000 Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in the MANIFEST-17K Study

[Ep. 93] A Discussion of Safety of Pulsed Field Ablation in More than 17,000 Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in the MANIFEST-17K Study

NEW EPISODE OF THE LEAD!

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🎀 Guests: Nikolas Nozica, MD and Tobias Reichlin, MD

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[Ep. 95] A Discussion of Personalized Voltage Maps Guided by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in the Era of High-Density Mapping  

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[Ep. 95] A Discussion of Personalized Voltage Maps Guided by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in the Era of High-Density Mapping #EPeeps #medpod #podcast #CardioTwitter #EPTwitter #PodcastAndChill #HRS365

NEW EPISODE OF THE LEAD!

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🎀 Guests: Arif Elvan, MD, PhD and Usha B. Tedrow, MD, MS, FHRS

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13.03.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[Ep. 88] A Discussion of Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Rare Pathogenic Variants in Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia Genes

[Ep. 88] A Discussion of Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Rare Pathogenic Variants in Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia Genes

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🎀 Guests: Ezim Ajufo, MD and Victor Nauffal, MD

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A Discussion of Radiofrequency catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation by pulmonary vein isolation with or without left atrial posterior wall isolation: long term outcomes of the CAPLA trial

A Discussion of Radiofrequency catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation by pulmonary vein isolation with or without left atrial posterior wall isolation: long term outcomes of the CAPLA trial

NEW! Tune into episode 86 of The Lead!

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🎀 Guests: Joshua M. Cooper, MD, FHRS and Jorge Romero, Jr., MD, FHRS

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09.01.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#EPeeps I suppose I should add something about the standard Sauer maneuver for those not familiar. @wsauer.bsky.social

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Ok. 3 minutes. Not bad.

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@epeepsbot.bsky.social test again. Hoping for improved response time.

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Time test for reply @epeepsbot.bsky.social

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Testing reply function on mention. Should be a pithy remark

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Reply please @epeepsbot.bsky.social

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Testing epeeps blue bot. @epeepsbot.bsky.social

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