Advances in Understanding of Cardiac Arrhythmias for Innovative Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, cardiac rhythm disorders, i.e., arrhythmias, are a permanent focus of experimental and clinical cardiologists. This is because of high impact on mortality and morbidity worldwide, despite the progress of treatment in the last decades. Both invasive and non-invasive approaches are still not efficient enough to prevent the occurrence and/or recurrence of cardiac arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular fibrillation (VF). AF is most frequent arrhythmia, whose incidence increases along with the high risk of stroke. VF is often the cause of sudden cardiac death and sometimes even in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Taken together, it is challenging to address this topic on both bench and bedside molecular levels to understand better arrhythmogenesis, since it is conditio sine qua non to discover novel targets and approaches to fight cardiac arrhythmias.

This Special Issue “Advances in Understanding of Cardiac Arrhythmias for Innovative Treatment” will cover a selection of recent research topics and updated review articles based on the molecular and cellular view on cardiac arrhythmias and their possible prevention.

Dr. Narcis Tribulova
Dr. Peter Hlivak
Prof. Dr. Robert Hatala
Guest Editors

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