2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Executive summary

Hugh Calkins; Gerhard Hindricks; Riccardo Cappato; Young-Hoon Kim; Eduardo B Saad; Luis Aguinaga; Joseph G Akar; Vinay Badhwar; Josep Brugada; John Camm; Peng-Sheng Chen; Shih-Ann Chen; Mina K Chung; Jens Cosedis Nielsen; Anne B Curtis; D Wyn Davies; John D Day; André d'Avila; N M S Natasja de Groot; Luigi Di Biase; Mattias Duytschaever; James R Edgerton; Kenneth A Ellenbogen; Patrick T Ellinor; Sabine Ernst; Guilherme Fenelon; Edward P Gerstenfeld; David E Haines; Michel Haissaguerre; Robert H Helm; Elaine Hylek; Warren M Jackman; Jose Jalife; Jonathan M Kalman; Josef Kautzner; Hans Kottkamp; Karl Heinz Kuck; Koichiro Kumagai; Richard Lee; Thorsten Lewalter; Bruce D Lindsay; Laurent Macle; Moussa Mansour; Francis E Marchlinski; Gregory F Michaud; Hiroshi Nakagawa; Andrea Natale; Stanley Nattel; Ken Okumura; Douglas Packer; Evgeny Pokushalov; Matthew R Reynolds; Prashanthan Sanders; Mauricio Scanavacca; Richard Schilling; Claudio Tondo; Hsuan-Ming Tsao; Atul Verma; David J Wilber; Teiichi Yamane

doi:10.1016/j.joa.2017.08.001

2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Executive summary

J Arrhythm. 2017 Oct;33(5):369-409. doi: 10.1016/j.joa.2017.08.001. Epub 2017 Sep 15.

Authors

Hugh Calkins¹, Gerhard Hindricks², Riccardo Cappato^{3

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5}, Young-Hoon Kim⁶, Eduardo B Saad⁷, Luis Aguinaga⁸, Joseph G Akar⁹, Vinay Badhwar¹⁰, Josep Brugada¹¹, John Camm¹², Peng-Sheng Chen¹³, Shih-Ann Chen¹⁴, Mina K Chung¹⁵, Jens Cosedis Nielsen¹⁶, Anne B Curtis¹⁷, D Wyn Davies¹⁸, John D Day¹⁹, André d'Avila²⁰, N M S Natasja de Groot²¹, Luigi Di Biase²², Mattias Duytschaever²³, James R Edgerton²⁴, Kenneth A Ellenbogen²⁵, Patrick T Ellinor²⁶, Sabine Ernst²⁷, Guilherme Fenelon²⁸, Edward P Gerstenfeld²⁹, David E Haines³⁰, Michel Haissaguerre³¹, Robert H Helm³², Elaine Hylek³³, Warren M Jackman³⁴, Jose Jalife³⁵, Jonathan M Kalman³⁶, Josef Kautzner³⁷, Hans Kottkamp³⁸, Karl Heinz Kuck³⁹, Koichiro Kumagai⁴⁰, Richard Lee⁴¹, Thorsten Lewalter⁴², Bruce D Lindsay¹⁵, Laurent Macle⁴³, Moussa Mansour²⁶, Francis E Marchlinski⁴⁴, Gregory F Michaud⁴⁵, Hiroshi Nakagawa³⁴, Andrea Natale⁴⁶, Stanley Nattel⁴⁷, Ken Okumura⁴⁸, Douglas Packer⁴⁹, Evgeny Pokushalov⁵⁰, Matthew R Reynolds⁵¹, Prashanthan Sanders⁵², Mauricio Scanavacca⁵³, Richard Schilling⁵⁴, Claudio Tondo⁵⁵, Hsuan-Ming Tsao⁵⁶, Atul Verma⁵⁷, David J Wilber⁵⁸, Teiichi Yamane⁵⁹

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
² Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Humanitas Research Hospital, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology Research Center, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁵ IRCCS, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
⁷ Hospital Pro-Cardiaco and Hospital Samaritano, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁸ Centro Privado de Cardiología, Tucuman, Argentina.
⁹ Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
¹⁰ West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV.
¹¹ Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
¹² St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom.
¹³ Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
¹⁴ National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁵ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
¹⁶ Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark.
¹⁷ University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
¹⁸ Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁹ Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Salt Lake City, UT.
²⁰ Hospital SOS Cardio, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.
²¹ Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
²² Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular Care, Bronx, NY.
²³ Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent (Ghent University Hospital), Ghent, Belgium.
²⁴ The Heart Hospital, Baylor Plano, Plano, TX.
²⁵ Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA.
²⁶ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
²⁷ Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
²⁸ Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
²⁹ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³⁰ Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI.
³¹ Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, Pessac, France.
³² Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA.
³³ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
³⁴ Heart Rhythm Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK.
³⁵ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, the National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III (CNIC) and CIBERCV, Madrid, Spain.
³⁶ Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
³⁷ Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
³⁸ Hirslanden Hospital, Department of Electrophysiology, Zurich, Switzerland.
³⁹ Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany.
⁴⁰ Heart Rhythm Center, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
⁴¹ Saint Louis University Medical School, St. Louis, MO.
⁴² Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care, Hospital Munich-Thalkirchen, Munich, Germany.
⁴³ Montreal Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
⁴⁴ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
⁴⁵ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
⁴⁶ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX.
⁴⁷ Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁴⁸ Division of Cardiology, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
⁴⁹ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
⁵⁰ State Research Institute of Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁵¹ Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
⁵² Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
⁵³ Instituto do Coração (InCor), São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵⁴ Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom.
⁵⁵ Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Center, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁵⁶ National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan City, Taiwan.
⁵⁷ Southlake Regional Health Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵⁸ Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
⁵⁹ Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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Keywords: AAD, antiarrhythmic drug; AF, atrial fibrillation; AFL, atrial flutter; Ablation; Anticoagulation; Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial flutter; Atrial tachycardia; CB, cryoballoon; CFAE, complex fractionated atrial electrogram; Catheter ablation; LA, left atrial; LAA, left atrial appendage; LGE, late gadolinium-enhanced; LOE, level of evidence; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; OAC, oral anticoagulation; RF, radiofrequency; Stroke; Surgical ablation.

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