Title: Routine Transesophageal Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation Before Electrical Cardioversion to Detect Left Atrial Thrombosis and Echocontrast

Credits: Sebastian Feickert, MD, Giuseppe D´Ancona, MD, PhD, Hüseyin Ince, MD, PhD, Kristof Graf, MD, PHD, Elias Kugel, MD, Monica Murero, PhD, Erdal Safak, MD

Title: Tumor or Thrombus? The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Differentiating Left Atrial Mass in A Transplanted Heart: A Case Report

Credits: Timm Seewöster, MD, Sebastian Hilbert, MD, Ricardo A. Spampinato, MD, Jochen Hahn, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Andreas Bollmann, MD, PhD, Ingo Paetsch, MD, and Cosima Jahnke, MD

Title: Emergency covered stent implantation for rupture of a pulmonary vein after balloon angioplasty for postinterventional pulmonary vein stenosis

Credits: Sebastian Hilbert, MD, Silke John, MD, Frank-Thomas Riede, MD, Arash Arya, MD, Ingo Paetsch, MD, Cosima Jahnke, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Andreas Bollmann, MD, PhD

Title: The Role of Renal Sympathetic Denervation in Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Jedrzej Kosiuk, MD, Evgeny Pokushalov, MD,Phd, Sebastian Hilbert, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Andreas Bollmann, MD, PhD, Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD

Title: Preserving Cognitive Function in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Tina Lin MD, Erik Wissner MD, Roland Tilz MD, Andreas Rillig MD, Shibu Mathew MD, Peter Rausch MD, Christine Lemes MD, Sebastian Deiss MD, Masashi Kamioka MD, Tudor Bucur MD, Feifan Ouyang MD, Karl-Heinz Kuck MD, Andreas Metzner MD

Title: Predictors of Recurrence After Catheter Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Thomas Deneke, Anja Schade, Joachim Krug, Karsten Stahl, Geza-Atilla Szollosi, Dong-In Shin, Clemens Nino Schukro, Mohamed E Tarahony, Enrique Murillo, Semko Aram, Gabriele Robhirt, Thomas Lawo, Andreas Mugge, Peter H. Grewe, Sebastian Kerber

Title: Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Michael Katsnelson, MD, Sebastian Koch, MD, Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD

Dr. Sebastian Stec, MD, PhD.

Affiliation: A clinical electrophysiologist. He performed all kind of ablation in adults and children with and without fluoroscopy. Currently Dr. Stec has position as research scientist at the Postgraduate Medical School, Warsaw, Poland and co-founder of ELMedica EP-Network. His research interests center on supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, intracardiac echocardiography, 3D-mapping and inter-disciplinary approach for diagnosis and symptoms’ management in patients with arrhythmias.