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The Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) is the first and only society organized in the Asia-Pacific region to promote excellence and advancement in the diagnosis and treatment of the patients with heart rhythm disorders.

Its objectives include providing opportunities for exchanging scientific, medical and technological information among its members and with members of other national/ international organizations by hosting annual APHRS scientific sessions and other related symposia.

APHRS2010 Recent Topics...
April 12, 2010
  APHRS2010 Online registration and abstract submission open.
February 16, 2010
  Updated Newsletter back issue.
Uploaded APHRS2009 Report.
November 9, 2009
  APHRS2009 was successfully ended with the total participants of more than 2,700.
July 16, 2009
  APHRS2009: Deadline of call for abstracts is extended until July 31, 2009.
May 15, 2009
  APHRS2009: the 2nd Scientific Meeting of the APHRS in Beijing, October 22-25, 2009 Please submit abstracts by July 15.
April 1, 2009
  APHRS2009: the 2nd Scientific Meeting of the APHRS in Beijing, October 22-25, 2009 [E-mail:aphrs2009@126.com ]
March 31, 2009
  Notice: The deadline to submit the abstracts for Venice Arrhythmias 2009 is scheduled on April 7, 2009.

Picks from Journal of Arrhythmia

Efficacy and Safety of Strict Voltage-based Substrate Mapping and Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation in Electrical Storms—Review of Substrate-mapping Guided Ablation in Frequent Appropriate Shocks

Representative case of strict voltage-based substrate-mapping in a patient with an inferior infarction

Takanori Arimoto, et al. investigated the efficacy and safety of strict voltage-based substrate mapping and radiofrequency catheter ablation (SV-substrate-map ablation) in patients with electrical storm then, presented a review of the literature and investigated the published data on substrate-mapping guided ablation for electrical storm. After repeat endocardial ablation procedures in 4 patients and an epicardial approach in one, the targeted ventricular tachycardias (VTs) were successfully ablated, and the electrical storms were completely controlled in all. During a mean follow-up period of 801±409 days, only one VT followed by an appropriate ICD shock was observed. No potential complications occurred during the procedure or follow-up. (see Vol. 25 No. 4 pp.193-202)