Recent Papers - Professor G André Ng
Khan EM, Frumkin W, Ng GA, Neelagaru S, Abi-Samra FM, Lee J, Giudici M, Gohn D, Winkle RA, Sussman J, Knight BP, Berman A, Calkins H. First experience with a novel robotic remote catheter system: Amigo™ mapping trial. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 2013 doi: 10.1007/s10840-013-9791-9
Curtis MJ, Hancox JC, Farkas A, Wainwright CL, Stables CL, Saint DA, Clements-Jewery H, Lambiase PD, Billman GE, Janse MJ, Pugsley MK, Ng GA, Roden DM, Camm AJ, Walker MJA. The Lambeth Conventions (II): Guidelines for the study of animal and human ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias. Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2013 doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.04.008
Salinet Jr JL, Madeiro JP, Cortez PC, Stafford PJ, Ng GA, Schlindwein FS. Analysis of QRS-T subtraction in unipolar atrial fibrillation electrograms. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013 doi: 10.1007/s11517-013-1071-4
Brack KE, Narang R, Winter J, Ng GA. The mechanical uncoupler blebbistatin is associated with significant electrophysiological effects in the isolated heart. Experimental Physiology 2013;98:1009-27.
Salinet Jr. JL, Oliveira GN, Vanheusden FJ, Comba JLD, Ng GA, Schlindwein FS. Visualization of Intracardiac Atrial Electrograms of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation using Spectral Analysis. Computing in Science & Engineering 2013;15(2):79-87.
Madeiro JP, Nicolson WB, Cortez PC, Marques JA, Vázquez-Seisdedos CR, Elangovan N, Ng GA, Schlindwein FS. New approach for T-wave peak detection and T-wave end location in 12-lead paced ECG signals based on a mathematical model. Medical Engineering and Physics 2012 pii: S1350-4533(12)00311-6. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.11.007
Banning AS, Ng GA. Driving and arrhythmia: a review of scientific basis for international guidelines. European Heart Journal 2012;34(3):236-244.
Winter J, Brack KE, Coote JH, Ng GA. RE: Sympathetic innervation of the anterior left ventricular wall by the right and left stellate ganglia. Heart Rhythm 2012 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.08.0481.
Camm AJ, Arden C, Choy AM, Kaba RA, Keane D, Khan K, Lau E, Lip GYH, Murgatroyd F, Ng GA, Peters N, Purcell H, Stafford P, Sulke N, Williams H. Translating regulatory advice into practice: use of dronedarone and older anti-arrhythmics in AF management. Br J Cardiol 2012;19(3) doi: 10.5837/bjc.2012.020.
Scharf C, Ng GA, Wieczorek M, Deneke T , Furniss S, Murray S, Debruyne P, Hobson N , Berntsen F, Schneider MA, Hauer H, Halimi F, Boveda S, Asbach St, Boesche L, Zimmermann M, Brigadeau F, Tajeb J, Merkel M, Pfyffer M, Brunner-La Rocca HP, Boersma L. European survey on efficacy and safety of duty cycled radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation. Europace 2012;14(12):1700-7.
Nicolson WB, McCann GP, Brown PD, Sandilands AJ, Stafford PJ, Schlindwein FS, Samani NJ, Ng GA. A Novel Surface Electrocardiogram Based Marker of Ventricular Arrhythmia Risk in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American Heart Association 2012 1:e001552 doi: 10.1161/JAHA.112.001552.
Brown PD, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Unusual use of a tip-versatile ablation catheter in the ablation of peri-nodal atrial tachycardia. Europace 2012 (in press) DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus156
Brack KE, Winter J, Ng GA. Mechanisms underlying the autonomic modulation of ventricular fibrillation initiation - tentative prophylactic properties of vagus nerve stimulation on malignant arrhythmias in heart failure. Heart Failure Reviews 2012 (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10741-012-9314-2.
Winter J, Tanko AS, Coote JH, Brack KE, Ng GA. Differential cardiac responses to unilateral sympathetic nerve stimulation in the isolated innervated heart. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical 2012;166(1-2):4-14
Ahmad A, Salinet JL, Brown P, Tuan JH, Stafford P, Ng GA, Schlindwein FS. QRS subtraction for atrial electrograms: flat, linear and spline interpolations. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2011;49(11):1321-8
Tuan J, Jeilan M, Kundu S, Nicolson W, Chung I, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Regional fractionation and dominant frequency in persistent Atrial Fibrillation: Effects of left atrial ablation and evidence of spatial relationship. Europace 2011;13(11):1550-6
Brack KE, Coote JH, Ng GA. Vagus nerve stimulation protects against ventricular fibrillation independent of muscarinic receptor activation. Cardiovasc Res. 2011;91:437-46.
Winter J, Brack KE, Ng GA. The acute inotropic effects of cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) are associated with action potential duration shortening and mediated by ß1-adrenoceptor signalling. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2011;51(2):252-62.
Winter J, Brack KE, Ng GA. Cardiac contractility modulation in the treatment of heart failure: initial results and unanswered questions. Eur J Heart Failure 2011;13:700-10.
Ahmad A, Schlindwein FS, Ng GA. Comparison of computation time for estimation of dominant frequency of atrial electrograms: Fast fourier transform, Blackman Tukey, Autoregressive and Mulitple Signal classification. J. Biomedical Science and Engineering. 2010;3:843-7.
Brack KE, Coote, JH, Ng GA. Re: Quantitative analysis of the parasympathetic innervation of the porcine heart. Heart Rhythm 2010;7(8)e2-3.
Osman F, Kundu S, Tuan J, Jeilan M, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Ganglionic plexus ablation during pulmonary vein isolation - predisposing to ventricular arrhythmias? Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2010 Feb 1;10(2):104-7.
Tuan J, Jeilan M, Osman F, Kundu S, Mantravadi R, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Increase in organization index predicts atrial fibrillation termination with flecainide post-ablation: spectral analysis of intracardiac electrograms. Europace. 2010;12(4):488-93.
Tuan J, Osman F, Jeilan M, Kundu S, Mantravadi R, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Pulmonary Vein Isolation using a High Density Mesh Ablator Catheter: incorporation of three-dimensional navigation and mapping. Journal of Atrial Fibrillation. 2009 Oct 1;1(9):510-518.
Brack KE, Patel VH, Mantravadi R, Coote JH, Ng GA. Direct evidence of nitric oxide release from neuronal nitric oxide synthase activation in the left ventricle as a result of cervical vagus nerve stimulation. J Physiol. 2009 Jun 15;587(Pt 12):3045-54.
Jeilan M, Tuan JH, Ng GA. Re: Longitudinal Strain Delay Index by Speckle Tracking Imaging - A New Marker of Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. Circulation. 2009; 119(25): e599.
Tuan JH, Jeilan M, Kundu S, Ng GA. Relationship between the spectral characteristics of atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardias that occur after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Heart Rhythm. 2009; 5(5):e1a.
Osman F, Jeilan M, Ng GA. Use of triple-site pacing in a patient with severe congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2009; 32(5): 673-4.
Jilaihawi H, Chin D, Vasa-Nicotera M, Jeilan M, Spyt T, Ng GA, Bence J, Logtens E, Kovac J. Predictors for Permanent Pacemaker Requirement following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) with the CoreValve Bioprosthesis. Am Heart J 2009; 157(5): 860-6.
Osman F, Stafford PJ, Ng GA. Looks Like VT But Isn't - Successful Ablation Of A Left Free Wall Accessory Pathway With Mahaim-like Properties. Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J 2009; 9(2):112-8.
Ng GA, Mantravadi R, Walker WH, Ortin WG, Choi BR, de Groat W, Salama G. Sympathetic nerve stimulation produces spatial heterogeneities of action potential restitution. Heart Rhythm. 2009 May;6(5):696-706.
Brack KE, Coote JH, Ng GA. Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits the increase in Ca2+ transient and left ventricular force caused by sympathetic nerve stimulation but had no direct effects alone - epicardial Ca2+ fluorescence studies using Fura-2 AM in the isolated innervated beating heart. Exp Physiol. 2009 Jan;95(1):80-92.
Patel VH, Brack KE, Coote JH, Ng GA. A novel method of measuring nitric-oxide-dependent fluorescence using 4,5-diaminofluorescein (DAF-2) in the isolated Langendorff-perfused heart. Pflugers Arch. 2008 Jun;456(3):635-45.
Jutley RS, Waller D, Loke I, Skehan D, Ng A, Stafford P, Chin D, Spyt TJ. Video-assisted thoracoscopic implantation of the left ventricular pacing lead for cardiac resynchronization therapy. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2008; 31(7): 812-818.
Tobin MD, Kähönen M, Braund P, Nieminen T, Hajat C, Tomaszewski M, Viik J, Lehtinen R, Ng GA, Macfarlane PW, Burton PR, Lehtimäki T, Samani NJ. Gender and effects of a common genetic variant in the NOS1 regulator NOS1AP on cardiac repolarization in 3761 individuals from two independent populations. Int J Epidemiol. 2008; 37(5): 1132-41.
Jeilan M, Kundu S, Tuan JH, Ng GA. The atrioventricular delay of cardiac resynchronization can be optimized hemodynamically during exercise and predicted from resting measurements. Heart Rhythm. 2008; 5(11):e1-2.
