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Journal of Arrhythmia

Publication date: 2024-12-01
Volume: 40 Pages: 1217 - 1354
Publisher: Wiley

Author:

Tzeis, Stylianos
Gerstenfeld, Edward P ; Kalman, Jonathan ; Saad, Eduardo B ; Sepehri Shamloo, Alireza ; Andrade, Jason G ; Barbhaiya, Chirag R ; Baykaner, Tina ; Boveda, Serge ; Calkins, Hugh ; Chan, Ngai-Yin ; Chen, Minglong ; Chen, Shih-Ann ; Dagres, Nikolaos ; Damiano, Ralph J ; De Potter, Tom ; Deisenhofer, Isabel ; Derval, Nicolas ; Di Biase, Luigi ; Duytschaever, Mattias ; Dyrda, Katia ; Hindricks, Gerhard ; Hocini, Meleze ; Kim, Young-Hoon ; la Meir, Mark ; Merino, Jose Luis ; Michaud, Gregory F ; Natale, Andrea ; Nault, Isabelle ; Nava, Santiago ; Nitta, Takashi ; O'Neill, Mark ; Pak, Hui-Nam ; Piccini, Jonathan P ; Puererfellner, Helmut ; Reichlin, Tobias ; Saenz, Luis Carlos ; Sanders, Prashanthan ; Schilling, Richard ; Schmidt, Boris ; Supple, Gregory E ; Thomas, Kevin L ; Tondo, Claudio ; Verma, Atul ; Wan, Elaine Y

Keywords:

Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems, Cardiovascular System & Cardiology, Atrial fibrillation, Catheter ablation, Surgical ablation, PULMONARY-VEIN ISOLATION, POSTERIOR WALL ISOLATION, PULSED-FIELD ABLATION, LONG-TERM OUTCOMES, EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE-TISSUE, OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP-APNEA, CIRCULAR MAPPING CATHETER, PHRENIC-NERVE INJURY, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, BIPOLAR RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION, 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology

Abstract:

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.