Venice Chart international consensus document on atrial fibrillation ablation

Venice Chart International Consensus Document on Atrial Fibrillation Ablation ANDREA NATALE, M.D.,∗ ANTONIO RAVIELE, M.D.,† THOMAS ARENTZ, M.D.,‡ HUGH CALKINS, M.D.,¶ SHIH-ANN CHEN, M.D.,∗∗ MICHEL HAISSAGUERRE, M.D.,†† GERHARD HINDRICKS, M.D.,‡‡ YEN HO, M.D.,¶¶ KARL HEINZ KUCK, M.D.,∗∗∗ FRANCIS MARCHLINSKI, M.D.,††† CARLO NAPOLITANO, M.D.,‡‡‡ DOUGLAS PACKER, M.D.,¶¶¶ CARLO PAPPONE, M.D.,∗∗∗∗ ERIC N. PRYSTOWSKY, M.D.,†††† RICHARD SCHILLING, M.D.,‡‡‡‡ DIPEN SHAH, M.D.,¶¶¶¶ SAKIS THEMISTOCLAKIS, M.D.,† and ATUL VERMA, M.D.,∗∗∗∗∗ for the Venice Chart members From the ∗Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA; †Department of Cardiology, Arrhythmologic Section, Umberto I Hospital, Venice-Mestre, Italy; ‡Arrhythmia Service, Herz-Zentrum, Bad Krozingen, Germany; ¶Department of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA; ∗∗Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ††Hospital du Haut Leveque, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; ‡‡University Leipzig, Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, Leipzig, Germany; ¶¶National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College and Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK; ∗∗∗Second Medical Department, St Georg General Hospital, Hamburg, Germany; †††Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; ‡‡‡Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, University of Pavia, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Pavia, Italy; ¶¶¶Department of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA; ∗∗∗∗Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing Unit, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy; ††††St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Program, Indianapolis, USA; ‡‡‡‡St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK; ¶¶¶¶Cardiology Cantonal Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; ∗∗∗∗∗University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.