- Overview
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The BC Children's Hospital Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Program is dedicated to advancing research that improves the lives of children with abnormal heart rhythm conditions or arrhythmias. This includes researching disease mechanisms as well as novel treatments in children with arrhythmias. The research involves collaborating with other clinicians and basic scientists from all over the world.
- Publications
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Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series and a Literature Review
CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
Wisam Abozaid and Samantha Wong and Marc W. Deyell and Shubhayan Sanatani and Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2024.10.007
12/2024A Newborn With Severe and Refractory Hypoglycemia
Journal of Neonatology
Roychaudhuri, S. and Abdallateef, N. and Vijayashankar, S.S. and Tan, J. and Metzger, D. and Kieran, E.
DOI: 10.1177/09732179231172280
2024Management of acute supraventricular tachycardia in children
Canadian Family Physician
Abbasi, E. and Vijayashankar, S.S. and Goldman, R.D.
DOI: 10.46747/cfp.6912839
2023Vascular and cardiac ultrasound as the primary imaging tool to safely deliver pacing leads while implanting single-chamber permanent pacemakers: A single-operator experience in a tertiary cardiac center
Heart Rhythm
Khan, H.R. and Moustafa, A.T. and Triemstra, S. and Mokhtar, A.T. and Saravu, S. and Mtwesi, V. and Gula, L.J. and Leong-Sit, P. and Manlucu, J. and Skanes, A.C. and Yee, R. and Tang, A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.05.032
2023Left ventricular dysfunction in the immediate post-natal period
Translational Pediatrics
Vijayashankar, S.S. and Sanatani, G. and Franciosi, S. and Moodley, S. and Ting, J.Y.
DOI: 10.21037/tp-22-301
2023Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Ventricular Preexcitation in the Young: Cause and Accessory Pathway Characteristics
Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Przybylski, R. and Saravu Vijayashankar, S. and O{'}Leary, E.T. and Hylind, R.J. and Noon, J. and Dionne, A. and Dewitt, E.S. and Bezzerides, V.J. and Abrams, D.J.
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.123.012191
2023When Adenosine Does Not Work: Apparent and Real Adenosine-Resistant Tachycardia
Pediatric Emergency Care
Shortland, J. and Saravu Vijayashankar, S. and Sanatani, S.
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002701
2022First antenatally confirmed case of arterial tortuosity syndrome
Cardiology in the Young
Sakethram Saravu Vijayashankar and J. A. Gordon Culham and Shreya Moodley
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951120002644
11/2020Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: When the Gut Takes Charge
Cjc Open
Vijayashankar, S.S. and Barker, C. and Sanatani, S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2020.04.013
2020 - Research
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Sudden Death in the Young
Our research aims to expand our understanding of inherited arrhythmia conditions that cause sudden death in the young such as Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT). Jn collaboration with other clinicians and basic scientists around the world, our work focuses on uncovering the genetic and physiological foundations of inherited arrhythmias that contribute to sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy children. Through patient registries and longitudinal data collection, we aim to uncover genotype-phenotype correlations, risk stratification, and prognostic modeling. Ultimately, this work aims to enable earlier diagnosis, improved risk prediction, and more effective, personalized therapeutic interventions for pediatric patients at risk of sudden cardiac death.Supraventricular Tachycardia
Supraventricular tachycardia {SVT}, a common arrhythmia in children, can impact a child's quality of life. We aim to advance our understanding of the SVT subtypes and evaluating the most effective treatment strategies. These includes novel management strategies such as drug treatments as well as catheter-based procedures.Autonomic Nervous System
Our research aims to unravel the role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in arrhythmia conditions and sudden death in the young. In particular, we aim to understand how autonomic imbalance contributes to both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, and how targeted neuromodulation might serve as a therapeutic strategy.
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