Title: Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Loweringon Incident Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Credits: Matthew J. Singleton, Lin Y. Chen, S. Patrick Whalen, Prashant D. Bhave, Elijah H. Beaty, Joseph Yeboah, Elsayed Z. Soliman

Title: Quantifying Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation: Retrospective Review of a Large Electronic Patient Database

Credits: Jaclyn Rivington MD, Patrick Twohig MD MPH

Title: Risk Factors for Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation-Analysis of an Outpatient Database

Credits: Annabelle Santos Volgman, Patrick Dunn, Allison Sundberg, Scott Conard, Pavitra Chakravarty, Zin Htway, Albert Waldo, Christine Albert, Mintu P. Turakhia, Gerald V. Naccarelli

Title: Ablation of Complex Fractionated Electrograms Improves Outcome in Very Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Claire Martin, James Curtain: Parag Gajendragadkar, David Begley, Simon Fynn, Andrew Grace, Patrick Heck, Munmohan Virdee, Sharad Agarwal

Title: Efficacy, high procedural safety and rapid optimization of cryoballoon atrial fibrillation ablation in the hands of a new operator

Credits: Eberhard Scholz, Patrick Lugenbiel, Patrick A. Schweizer, Panagiotis Xynogalos, Claudia Seyler, Edgar Zitron, Rüdiger Becker, Hugo A. Katus, Dierk Thomas

Title: Silent Cerebral Events after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation – Overview and Current Data

Credits: Thomas Deneke, Karin Nentwich, Joachim Krug, Patrick Müller, Peter Hubert Grewe, Andreas Mügge, Anja Schade

Title: Risk of Cardiovascular Events, Stroke, Congestive Heart Failure, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Acute Liver Injury: Dronedarone versus Amiodarone and Other Antiarrhythmics

Credits: Shujun Gao, Wanju Dai, Ling Zhang, Juhaeri Juhaeri, Yunxun Wang, Patrick Caubel

Title: A Novel Transgenic Mouse Model of Cardiac Hypertrophy and Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Michael A. Rosenberg MD, Saumya Das MD, PhD, Pablo Quintero Pinzon MD, Ashley C. Knight BA, David E. Sosnovik MD, Patrick T. Ellinor MD, PhD, Anthony Rosenzweig MD

Dr. Patrick M. McCarthy, MD, FACC.

Affiliation: Chief of Cardiac Surgery Division and Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.