Title: Extreme Obesity is Associated with Low Success Rate of Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation

Credits: Toshimasa Okabe, MD, Benjamin Buck, MD, Samuel A. Hayes MD, Thura T.Harfi MD, MPH, Muhammad R. Afzal, MD, Jaret Tyler, MD, Mahmoud Houmsse, MD, Steven J. Kalbfleisch, MD, Raul Weiss, MD, John D. Hummel, MD, Ralph S. Augostini, MD, Emile G. Daoud, MD

Title: Contact-Force Guided Pulmonary Vein Isolation does not Improve Success Rate in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Patients and Severe Left Atrial Enlargement: A 12-month Follow-Up Study

Credits: Enes E. Gul, MD, Usama Boles, MD, Sohaib Haseeb, BSc, Wilma Hopman, MA, Kevin A. Michael, MD, Chris Simpson, MD, Hoshiar Abdollah, MD, Adrian Baranchuk, MD, Damian Redfearn, MD, and Benedict Glover, MD

Title: Left Atrial Appendage Characteristics in Patients with Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Catheter Ablation (LAAPAF Study)

Credits: Enes E. Gul, Usama Boles, Sohaib Haseeb, Justin Flood, Ayuish Bansal, Benedict Glover, Damian Redfearn, Chris Simpson, Hoshiar Abdollah, Adrian Baranchuk, and Kevin A. Michael

Title: High Voltage Guided Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Usama Boles, Enes E Gul, Andres Enriquez, Howard Lee, Dave Riegert, Adrian Andres, Adrian Baranchuk, Damian Redfearn, Benedict Glover, Chris Simpson, Hoshiar Abdollah, Kevin Michael

Title: Control of hypertension improves the outcome of therapies for paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation

Credits: Dr. Chris Hayes

Title: Utility of the pulmonary vein ablation catheter for electrical isolation of a left sided vena cava triggering atrial fibrillation

Credits: David Turpie, Chris Llewellyn, Paul Broadhurst

Dr. Chris Hayes, MD.

Affiliation: Having completed specialist training in Oxford is now a clinical fellow in electrophysiology and devices at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Dr. Chris Llewellyn, MSc.

Affiliation: Chris Llewellyn MSc. is a graduate of the University of Teesside and is a chief cardiac physiologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. His main interests are in the fields of cardiac devices and electrophysiology.