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

Affiliations

• ¹ Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected].
• ² Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ³ Humanitas Research Hospital, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology Research Center, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ IRCCS, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
• ⁷ Hospital Pro-Cardiaco and Hospital Samaritano, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ⁸ Centro Privado de Cardiología, Tucuman, Argentina.
• ⁹ Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹⁰ West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA.
• ¹¹ Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• ¹² St. George's University of London, London, UK.
• ¹³ Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
• ¹⁴ National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ¹⁵ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ¹⁶ Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark.
• ¹⁷ University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• ¹⁸ Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁹ Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ²⁰ Hospital SOS Cardio, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.
• ²¹ Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²² Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular Care, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ²³ Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent (Ghent University Hospital), Ghent, Belgium.
• ²⁴ The Heart Hospital, Baylor Plano, Plano, TX, USA.
• ²⁵ Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA.
• ²⁶ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²⁷ Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁸ Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ²⁹ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ³⁰ Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, USA.
• ³¹ Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, Pessac, France.
• ³² Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³³ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁴ Heart Rhythm Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
• ³⁵ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³⁶ The National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
• ³⁷ CIBERCV, Madrid, Spain.
• ³⁸ Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ³⁹ Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁴⁰ Hirslanden Hospital, Department of Electrophysiology, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁴¹ Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁴² Heart RhythmCenter, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
• ⁴³ Saint Louis University Medical School, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care, Hospital Munich-Thalkirchen, Munich, Germany.
• ⁴⁵ Montreal Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
• ⁴⁶ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁴⁷ University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁴⁸ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴⁹ St. David's Medical Center, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX, USA.
• ⁵⁰ Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁵¹ Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁵² McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ⁵³ University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁵⁴ Division of Cardiology, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
• ⁵⁵ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁵⁶ State Research Institute of Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russia.
• ⁵⁷ Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA, USA.
• ⁵⁸ Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• ⁵⁹ Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
• ⁶⁰ Instituto do Coração (InCor), São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁶¹ Barts Heart Centre, London, UK.
• ⁶² Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Center, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶³ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶⁴ National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan City, Taiwan.
• ⁶⁵ Southlake Regional Health Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶⁶ Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁶⁷ Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.