1. 2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.
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Tzeis S, Gerstenfeld EP, Kalman J, Saad EB, Sepehri Shamloo A, Andrade JG, Barbhaiya CR, Baykaner T, Boveda S, Calkins H, Chan NY, Chen M, Chen SA, Dagres N, Damiano RJ, De Potter T, Deisenhofer I, Derval N, Di Biase L, Duytschaever M, Dyrda K, Hindricks G, Hocini M, Kim YH, la Meir M, Merino JL, Michaud GF, Natale A, Nault I, Nava S, Nitta T, O'Neill M, Pak HN, Piccini JP, Pürerfellner H, Reichlin T, Saenz LC, Sanders P, Schilling R, Schmidt B, Supple GE, Thomas KL, Tondo C, Verma A, Wan EY, Steven D, Agbayani MJ, Jared Bunch T, Chugh A, Díaz JC, Freeman JV, Hardy CA, Heidbuchel H, Johar S, Linz D, Maesen B, Noseworthy PA, Oh S, Porta-Sanchez A, Potpara T, Rodriguez-Diez G, Sacher F, Suwalski P, and Trines SA
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- Humans, Latin America, Treatment Outcome, Catheters, Asia, Atrial Fibrillation diagnosis, Atrial Fibrillation surgery, Catheter Ablation adverse effects, Catheter Ablation methods
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In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007, the first joint expert consensus document was issued, guiding healthcare professionals involved in catheter or surgical AF ablation. Mounting research evidence and technological advances have resulted in a rapidly changing landscape in the field of catheter and surgical AF ablation, thus stressing the need for regularly updated versions of this partnership which were issued in 2012 and 2017. Seven years after the last consensus, an updated document was considered necessary to define a contemporary framework for selection and management of patients considered for or undergoing catheter or surgical AF ablation. This consensus is a joint effort from collaborating cardiac electrophysiology societies, namely the European Heart Rhythm Association, the Heart Rhythm Society, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society ., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: All members provided disclosure statements to assess potential conflicts of interest. Details are available in the Supplementary material., (This article has been co-published with permission in Europace, HeartRhythm, Journal of Arrhythmia and Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. © 2024 Heart Rhythm Society, the European Society of Cardiology, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society The articles are identical except for minor stylistic and spelling differences in keeping with each journal's style. Any citation can be used when citing this article.)
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- 2024
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