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Published in: Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 1/2017

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2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: executive summary

Authors: Hugh Calkins, Gerhard Hindricks, Riccardo Cappato, Young-Hoon Kim, Eduardo B. Saad, Luis Aguinaga, Joseph G. Akar, Vinay Badhwar, Josep Brugada, John Camm, Peng-Sheng Chen, Shih-Ann Chen, Mina K. Chung, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Anne B. Curtis, D. Wyn Davies, John D. Day, André d’Avila, N.M.S. (Natasja) de Groot, Luigi Di Biase, Mattias Duytschaever, James R. Edgerton, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Patrick T. Ellinor, Sabine Ernst, Guilherme Fenelon, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, David E. Haines, Michel Haissaguerre, Robert H. Helm, Elaine Hylek, Warren M. Jackman, Jose Jalife, Jonathan M. Kalman, Josef Kautzner, Hans Kottkamp, Karl Heinz Kuck, Koichiro Kumagai, Richard Lee, Thorsten Lewalter, Bruce D. Lindsay, Laurent Macle, Moussa Mansour, Francis E. Marchlinski, Gregory F. Michaud, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Andrea Natale, Stanley Nattel, Ken Okumura, Douglas Packer, Evgeny Pokushalov, Matthew R. Reynolds, Prashanthan Sanders, Mauricio Scanavacca, Richard Schilling, Claudio Tondo, Hsuan-Ming Tsao, Atul Verma, David J. Wilber, Teiichi Yamane

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Chair: Hugh Calkins, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA. …
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Metadata
Title
2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: executive summary
Authors
Hugh Calkins
Gerhard Hindricks
Riccardo Cappato
Young-Hoon Kim
Eduardo B. Saad
Luis Aguinaga
Joseph G. Akar
Vinay Badhwar
Josep Brugada
John Camm
Peng-Sheng Chen
Shih-Ann Chen
Mina K. Chung
Jens Cosedis Nielsen
Anne B. Curtis
D. Wyn Davies
John D. Day
André d’Avila
N.M.S. (Natasja) de Groot
Luigi Di Biase
Mattias Duytschaever
James R. Edgerton
Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
Patrick T. Ellinor
Sabine Ernst
Guilherme Fenelon
Edward P. Gerstenfeld
David E. Haines
Michel Haissaguerre
Robert H. Helm
Elaine Hylek
Warren M. Jackman
Jose Jalife
Jonathan M. Kalman
Josef Kautzner
Hans Kottkamp
Karl Heinz Kuck
Koichiro Kumagai
Richard Lee
Thorsten Lewalter
Bruce D. Lindsay
Laurent Macle
Moussa Mansour
Francis E. Marchlinski
Gregory F. Michaud
Hiroshi Nakagawa
Andrea Natale
Stanley Nattel
Ken Okumura
Douglas Packer
Evgeny Pokushalov
Matthew R. Reynolds
Prashanthan Sanders
Mauricio Scanavacca
Richard Schilling
Claudio Tondo
Hsuan-Ming Tsao
Atul Verma
David J. Wilber
Teiichi Yamane
Publication date
01-10-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1383-875X
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8595
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-017-0277-z

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