Title: Atrial Fibrillation Awareness – How do we Tackle a Global Epidemic?
Credits: Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Prophylactic Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Electrophysiology Collaborative Consortium for Metaanalysis – ELECTRAM Investigators
Title: High Cerebrovascular Thromboembolic Event Rate Long After Unsuccessful Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Title: Safety and Efficacy of Cryoballoon Ablation for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Diabetic Patients
Title: Remote Monitoring of Atrial High Rate Episodes in Pacemaker Patients. The RAPID Study Design
Title: Basic Properties and Clinical Applications of the Intracardiac ECG
Title: Atrial Fibrillation Ablation - Cryoballoon versus Radiofrequency: A Meta-analysis of 20 Clinical Trials
Credits: Jalaj Garg MD FESC, Rahul Chaudhary MD, Chandrasekar Palaniswamy MD, Neeraj Shah MD MPH, Babak Bozorgnia MD FACC, Andrea Natale MD FACC FHRS FESC
Title: JAFIB is on PUBMED now!
Credits: Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHR, FESC
Title: Successful Ablation of Single Reentrant Ventricular Tachycardia Arising from Peri-Aortic Scar in a Patient with an Apparently Normal Heart
Credits: Hiro Yamasaki, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, FHRS, Arash Arya, MD, FHRS, Philipp Sommer, MD, FHRS, FESC
Title: A questionable indication for ICD extraction after successful VT ablation
Credits: Luca Segreti, MD, Andrea Di Cori, MD, Giulio Zucchelli, MD, PhD, Ezio Soldati, MD, Giovanni Coluccia, MD, Stefano Viani, MD, Luca Paperini, MD, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, MD, FESC
Title: Exploring Atrial Fibrillation Pathophysiology, Gender Differences and More…….
Credits: Dhanunjaya (DJ)Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Exploring New Frontiers
Credits: Dhanunjaya (DJ)Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Techniques to Improve Left Atrial Appendage Imaging
Credits: ahar S. Abdelmoneim, M.B.B.C.h., M.Sc, MS, FESC, Sharon L. Mulvagh, MD, FASE,FACC
Title: Presence of a Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus after successful surgical closure of the Left Atrial Appendage: A Case Report
Credits: Junaid Bhutto, MD, Steven B. Feinstein, MD, FACC, FESC, Kousik Krishnan, MD, FACC, FHRS
Title: Building Atrial Fibrillation Awareness: Is it time to get beyond the Top Line?
Credits: Sanjeev Saksena, MD FHRS FACC FAHA FESC FRSM
Title: COST-EFFECTIVENESS of ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION
Credits: Gulmira Kudaiberdieva, MD, FESC, Bulent Gorenek, MD, FESC, FACC
Title: Exploring the New Frontiers in the Left Atrial Appendage
Credits: Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Boston AF symposium moves to Orlando !
Credits: Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Sleep Disordered Breathing and the Pathogenesis of Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: Thomas Bitter, MD, Dieter Horstkotte, MD, PhD, FESC, FACCP, Olaf Oldenburg, MD, PhD
Title: Atrial Fibrillation, Alcohol, Obesity and more....
Credits: Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Impact of metabolic syndrome on ablation-outcome in patients with atrial fibrillation: A systematic review
Credits: Sanghamitra Mohanty, MD, MS, Luigi Di Biase, MD PhD FHRS, Prasant Mohanty, MBBS, MPH, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, Bai Rong, MD FHRS, Trivedy Chintan, MD MPH, David Burkhardt, MD, Joseph G Gallinghouse, MD, Rodney Horton, MD, Javier E Sanchez, MD, Shane Bailey, MD, Jason Zagrodzky, MD, Andrea Natale, MD, FACC, FESC, FHRS
Title: Our Mission Towards Atrial Fibrillation Free World
Credits: Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy MD, FACC, FHRS, Andrea Natale MD, FACC, FHRS, FESC
Title: Alternative therapies in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
Credits: Federico Lombardi, MD, FESC, Sebastiano Belletti, MD, Alberto Lomuscio, MD.
Title: Prevention of Stroke by Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Credits: Athanasios J. Manolis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FAHA, Leonidas E. Poulimenos, MD, FESC
Title: The Role of Atrial Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: An Imaging Point of View for Predicting Recurrence.
Credits: Yasushi Akutsu MD, PhD, FACC, FACP, FESC, Kaoru Tanno MD, PhD, Youichi Kobayashi MD, PhD, FESC
Title: Catheter Ablation of Atrial fibrillation in Overweight and Obese Patients
Credits: Louiza Lioni, MD, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, MD, Konstantinos P. Letsas, MD, FESC
Title: Association between BMI and QoL improvement in AF patients following catheter ablation
Credits: Martin Martinek, MD, Helmut Purerfellner, MD, FHRS, FESC
Title: Multi-electrode Ablation Catheters for AF ablation: Effective reality or elegant experiment?
Credits: Lucas Boersma, MD PhD FESC
Title: Quinidine for pharmacological cardioversion of long-lasting atrial fibrillation: safety and efficacy
Credits: Matteo Baroni MD, Antoine Kheir MD, Margherita Manfredi MD, Francesco Pattarino MD, Flavio Doni FESC
Title: Atrial Fibrillation after Cardiac Surgery: Benign or Deserving of Prophylaxis
Credits: Stephen Westaby PhD, MS, FETCS, FESC, FACC
Title: Use of Ivabradine in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Credits: Jamil-Copley S, MRCP, Nagarajan DV, MRCP, Baig MK, MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC
Title: Biatrial, 3-Dimensional Mapping of Human Atrial Fibrillation: Methodology and Clinical Observations
Credits: Nicholas D. Skadsberg, PhD, Rangadham Nagarakanti, MDb, Sanjeev Saksena, MD, FHRS, FACC, FESC
Title: Atrial Fibrillation: The New Epidemic of the Ageing World
Credits: Wilbert S. Aronow, MD, FACC, FAHA, Maciej Banach, MD, FESC, FASA
Affiliation: Director of Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Unit at Rovigo General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy.
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, and Consultant Clinical Cardiologist at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. Research interests include; Atrial Fibrillation, Lipids, Resuscitation, Stroke and Novel Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.
Affiliation: Working in Eskisehir Osmangazi University Cardiology Department, Eskisehir-Turkey. Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Education Committee. Executive board member and the treasurer of the ESC Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA). Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Scientific Documents Committee. Council member of the International Society of Electrocardiology. Member of the Turkish Society of Cardiology Scientific Committee.
Affiliation: Dr. Pandozi graduated in 1981 in Medicine and Surgery at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He specialized in Cardiovascular Disease at the second policlinic in Naples in 1985. From 1993 Assistant Medical Director in the Cardiology’s Division at the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome. From 2002 Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome, In 2001 he was appointed "Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology" (FESC). Author, often the first name of several scientific papers, many of which have been published in leading national and international journals of Cardiology. He attended, almost always as a speaker, numerous national and international conferences.
Affiliation: Dr. Thomas is head of electrophysiology at the Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests include molecular mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and novel therapeutic strategies.
Affiliation: Professor of Cardiology at the University of Milan and Director of Cardiology/CCU at San Paolo Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is member of the Nucleus of the Working Group of E-Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology.Main research interests involve pathophysiological mechanisms and treatment of atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death, non- invasive assessment of cardiovascular function, autonomic control and cardiac pacing.
Affiliation: Graduated from Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași, România (in 2002), trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Assistant Professor and postdoctoral researcher at Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași, România (since 2014). She did a fellowship in Arrhythmology (2005-2007) and Echocardiography (2010-2012) at Catolic University of Louvain, in Belgium. She has a particular interest in cardiac rhythm disorders (especially atrial fibrillation) and cardiovascular imaging (especially echocardiography) and is a new member of SPAF Academy.
Affiliation: Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Endoluminal Interventions Director, Section of Adult Congenital Heart Interventions Rovigo General Hospital, Viale Tre Martiri 45100 Rovigo, Italy
Affiliation: Scientific areas of interest: arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, acute cardiac care, risk stratification, noninvasive electrophysiology, research administration
Affiliation: Master in Cardiac EP EHRA Certified Electrophysiology Specialist (ECES 1, ECES 2) AIAC Regional Councilor (Lombardy) Cardiac Electrophysiologist: Arrhythmia & EP Unit II - Humanitas Gavazzeni Clinics - Bergamo (Italy)
Affiliation: University Master in Cardiac EP & Pacing. EHRA Certified Electrophysiology Specialist (ECES1, ECES2). Current affiliation: Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Arrhythmia & EP Unit II, Humanitas Gavazzeni Clinics, Bergamo (BG), Italy. Major interests: catheter ablation and arrhythmia mapping, WPW, pacing maneuvers, subcutaneous ICD
Affiliation: Ignacio García-Bolao MD, PhD, FESC is Head of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Director of the Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Department at the Clinica Universidad de Navarra. He is Full Professor at the University of Navarra. He is highly experienced in catheter mapping and ablation of atrial and ventricular complex arrhythmias, percutaneous left atrial appendage closure and CRT.
Affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.
Affiliation: Division of Cardiology/Department of Medicin, Glostrup University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark
Affiliation: Dr. João de Sousa is Director of Electrophysiology and Pacing Laboratory at Santa Maria University Hospital and, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated from the University of Lisbon in 1984. He performed his two-year electrophysiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. His research interest is in catheter ablation of arrhythmias and device treatment of heart failure and sudden death prevention.
Affiliation: Dr. De Groot is a Clinical Electrophysiologist/Device Specialist and Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests include hybrid and thoracoscopic ablation for atrial fibrillation, arrhythmias in patients with congenital heart disease and novel implantable device technology.
Affiliation: Dr Letsas received his medical degree in 1997 and completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Ioannina in 2003. After serving his residency in Cardiology at Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, he completed an advanced fellowship training program of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Herzzentrum, Bad Krozingen (Germany). He received the accreditation of the EHRA in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology in 2008. Since 2009, he works as a consultant Cardiologist/Electrophysiologist at Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens. He represents Greece in the EHRA Young Electrophysiologists group.
Affiliation: Head of Cardiology in his hospital, and Chairman of the Netherlands Heart Rhythm Association
Affiliation: Dr Barman is currently affiliated with Cardiac care center in Al Ahli Hospital Qatar. An internist by heart and specialist Cardiologist by profession, he has diverse clinical and leadership experience. Significant accomplishments in developing managed care services integrating delivery systems, improving quality and utilization management programs and coaching medical staff on healthcare business and practice issues.
Affiliation: Minglong Chen, MD. FHRS, FESC,Director of Cardiac EP,Vice-director of cardiology,Nanjing Medical University Hospital (Jiangsu Province Hospital).
Affiliation: Dr. Ilov is a cardiologist and a researcher having clinical experience in Electrophysyology, Catheter Ablation and Cardiac Pacing. Currently working as implanting cardiosurgeon in the Dept. of Surgical Treatment of complex Arrhythmias and Pacemaker Implantation, Federal Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery, Astrakhan, Russia.
Affiliation: Professor Osmar Antonio Centurion, is a cardiologist with expertise in Hemodynamics and Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Ablation. He is Professor of Medicine at the Facultad de Ciencias Médicas from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. He received is PhD degree in Cardiology, at the Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan in 1994. He is the Founding Member of Sociedad Latinoamericana de Cardiología Intervencionista (SOLACI). Author of more than 100 medical articles published in peer-reviewed American, European and Japanese journals in cardiology.
Affiliation: Paul Broadhurst MD FRCP FESC FHRS has been Consultant Cardiologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen since 2002. He is a graduate of the University of Dundee and trained in cardiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. His main clinical and research interests are in various aspects of clinical electrophysiology.
Affiliation: Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna, Italy
Affiliation: Pyotr Platonov is Professor of cardiology and senior cardiology consultant at Lund University and Skåne University hospital in Lund (Sweden). Main research interests include noninvasive electrocardiology and electrocardiography-based risk prediction in common cardiovascular conditions such as atrial fibrillation an congestive heart failure as well as inherited diseases associated with high risk of sudden cardiac death.
Affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy, 1Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey.
Affiliation: Dr. Sahar S. Abdelmoneim is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Research Associate in the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases Division, Cardiac Ultrasound and Hemodynamic Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She is also an Assistant Lecturer of Cardiology at Assiut University in Egypt. She has completed nine years of dedicated echocardiography research focused on the utilization of ultrasound contrast agents for cardiac imaging, including myocardial perfusion, and participates in the Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Core Lab.
Affiliation: Clinical Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School, Medical Director, Electrophysiology Research Foundation, Editor In Chief, Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, Past President, Heart Rhythm Society.
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Cardiology Department of Experimental and Applied Medicine Section of Cardiovascular Diseases University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Medicine and an invasive electrophysiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Canakkale, Turkey.
Affiliation: Dr. Tabitha Moe, MD FACC is an Adult Congenital Cardiologist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital providing care to adults with congenital heart diseases, pregnancy and cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary hypertension. She completed medical school, Internal Medicine Residency, and a Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She then went on to complete a Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at Banner University School of Medicine. She joined Arizona Pediatric Cardiology in October 2014 as an Adult Congenital Cardiologist. Her research interests include single ventricle physiology, pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart disease, and cardiogenomics.
Affiliation: Professor in Cardiology at the University of Ioannina, Greece
Affiliation: He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology. He is working Department of Cardiology and Director of Clinical Electrophysiology at the Kocaeli Derince Education and Research Hospital in Turkey. Dr. Aksu clinically interested in invasive electrophysiology, device implantation and catheter ablation therapies. Special interest areas are Atrial fibrillation and cardioneuroablation. Dr. Aksu has published more than 100 national and international scientific publications. Also, He is in Editorial Board of some international academical journals.
Affiliation: Electrophysiology Fellowship program, Queen’s university, Ontario, Canada
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Research Institute for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, and Director of Nuclear Stress Lab. Cardiac Unit, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine.
Affiliation: He is a Professor of Cardiology, Vice Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of Clinical Electrophysiology at the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary. Dr. Csanadi’s clinical interests cover the wide range of clinical electrophysiology including both device and catheter based therapies. His research activities have recently been focused on the clinical efficacy and safety of single-shot ablation technologies for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Dr. Csanadi is board member of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology currently serving as President of the Scientific Committee of the Society.
Affiliation: Dr. Hussam Ali: MD, FESC, FEHRA, FAIAC; University Master in Cardiac EP & Pacing; EHRA Certified Speciality in Invasive Cardiac EP (ECES 1, ECES 2); AIAC Regional Councilor (Lombardy 2016-2018); Senior Cardiac Electrophysiologist: Arrhythmia & EP Research Center - IRCCS Humanitas Research & University Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Affiliation: Graduated from Lisbon University and trained in Cardiology at St Marta’s Hospital, in Lisbon. Prof. Mario Oliveira has a particular interest in cardiac electrophysiology, rhythm disorders, its control by catheter ablation and implantable devices. His post-graduation mastership was in Sports Medicine and his major research activities involve autonomic nervous system and arrhythmogenesis, particularly related to atrial fibrillation, heart failure, sudden cardiac death and syncope. Author/co-author of 90 papers and more than 300 abstracts, winner of 31 scientific prizes and member of several scientific societies. He is the Director of Pacing and Electrophysiology Unit at Santa Marta Hospital, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Principal Investigator at the Clinical and Translational Physiology Unit (Instituto de Medicina Molecular) in the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon.
Affiliation: He is an Associate Professor of Cardiology. He is working Department of Cardiology and Director of Clinical Electrophysiology at the Kocaeli Derince Education and Research Hospital in Turkey. Dr. Aksu clinically interested in invasive electrophysiology, device implantation and catheter ablation therapies. Special interest areas are Atrial fibrillation and cardioneuroablation. Dr. Aksu has published more than 100 national and international scientific publications. Also, He is in Editorial Board of some international academical journals
Affiliation: Cardiologist and Arrhythmologist, Venice-Mestre, Italy. President of ALFA - Alliance to Fight Atrial Fibrillation and of the International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias - VeniceArrhyhtmias.
Affiliation: Physician doctor at Universität hospital of Nancy (CHU of Brabois 54500 Vandoeuvre les Nancy; France) Electrophysiologist
Affiliation: Director of Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Unit at Rovigo General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy.
Affiliation: Dr. Gilutz Harel received his M.D. degrees from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel at 1980. He was appointed as a director of the intensive coronary cardiac care unit at 1995 at the Soroka University Medical Center, a 1000-bed tertiary care and university hospital, affiliated with the Ben-Gurion University. At 1996-97 he was a visiting professor at the cardiovascular division at Stanford University where he had training in IVUS (Paul Yock) and passively participated in the research group of John Cook).
Affiliation: Director of the Cardiovascular Department in the S. Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome. Presidency of the World Society of Arrhythmias (WSA). Vice-President of the European Cardiac Arrhythmias Society (ECAS) and Chairman of the Euro-Japan Arrhythmia Forum (EJAF)
Affiliation: Deputy head of the EP laboratory, Cardiology Department, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland. Secretary of the Polish Heart Rhythm Association and Szczecin division of the Polish Cardiac Society. Lecturer in cardiology at the Pomeranian Medical University. Professional skills include: catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, pacemakers, ICDs, CRTs implantation and device follow-up, coronary angiography and PCI, advanced clinical care of patients in Coronary Intensive Care. Scientific interests include: clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac pacing and ICDs, acute coronary syndromes.
Affiliation: Director of the Centre of Clinical Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese in Milan, Italy. President of the European Cardiac Arrhythmias Society (ECAS), Co-Director and Organizer of Europe AF Congress
Affiliation: Dr. Salvatore Rosanio joined the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, TX in December 2012 as Professor of Medicine and as Attending Cardiologist at John Peter Smith Hospital and Columbia Plaza Medical Center in Fort Worth, TX. Dr. Rosanio has authored and co-authored significant research contributions in the fields of stress echocardiography, invasive cardiology, electrophysiology and cardiac pacing published by the top journals in the field, such as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Affiliation: I attended J.S.S Medical College in Mysore, Karnataka, India, and followed by research fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. I completed internship and residency at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. I am currently a PGY6 cardiology fellow at Lehigh Valley Health Network. I currently serve as chief cardiology fellow and will be pursing electrophysiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York starting 2017. I am an editorial board member for the Journal of Cardiovascular research and therapeutics and International Journal of Cardiology and Research. I also serve as a peer-reviewer for leading journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Transplantation, and Canadian Journal of Cardiology. My research interests center on atrial arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation and mechanisms of atrial arrhythmias and anticoagulation.
Affiliation: Maurizio Landolina, MD, FESC is Director of Cardiology Department at Maggiore Hospital of Crema (CR), Italy. During the last 25 years he reached large experience in electrophysiology, radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmias, cardiac pacing and ICD/CRT implantation. He was also actively involved in many scientific projects concerning arrhythmias (particularly arrhythmia mechanisms, pharmacological treatment, radiofrequency ablation, ICD and CRT therapy). Dr. Landolina is the author of 145 articles published in international peer-reviewed journal; 31 chapters, and 409 abstracts.
Affiliation: Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist performing cardiac interventions, LAA occlusion, ablation and device implants. Scientific interest; Atrial fibrillation ablation and cardiac electronic devices. Lectures at Technical University Munich.
ISLAA 2022-Left Atrial Appendage
Dr. Dhanunjay Lakkireddy, MD, F.A.C.C, FHRS, The Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute (KCHRI), KS, USA.
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