The aim of this survey was to provide insight into current practice regarding the management of paediatric arrhythmias in Europe. The survey was based on a questionnaire sent via the Internet to the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) electrophysiology research network centres. The following topics were explored: patient and treatment selection, techniques and equipment, treatment outcomes...

Bone metastases radionuclide therapy (bmrt) plays a major role in the treatment of malignant bone pain. However multicentre studies with large number of patients need to be done in order to define optimal disease settings and modalities to maximise the effects of bmrt. At present, an Italian observational study on bmrt involves 72 nuclear medicine centres. In order to facilitate data collection...

AIM Current practice with regard to transvenous lead extraction among European implanting centres was analysed by this survey. METHODS AND RESULTS Among all contacted centres, 164, from 30 countries, declared that they perform transvenous lead extraction and answered 58 questions with a compliance rate of 99.9%. Data from the survey show that there seems to be an overall increasing experience...

Proclemer et al. report real-life data from a large cohort of more than 35 000 patients treated with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy during the period 2005–07. These data document that the use of ICD treatment as primary prevention increased markedly during this period, in absolute numbers more than 50% from 2005 to 2007. In contrast, the number of patients treated with an ...