2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007, the first joint expert consensus document was issued, guiding healthcare professionals involved in catheter or surgical AF ablation. Mounting research evidence and technological advances have resulted in a rapidly changing landscape in the field of catheter and surgical AF ablation, thus stressing the need for regularly updated versions of this partnership which were issued in 2012 and 2017. Seven years after the last consensus, an updated document was considered necessary to define a contemporary framework for selection and management of patients considered for or undergoing catheter or surgical AF ablation. This consensus is a joint effort from collaborating cardiac electrophysiology societies, namely the European Heart Rhythm Association, the Heart Rhythm Society, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society.
Authors
- Santiago Nava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-6537)
- Isabel Deisenhofer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-6846)
- Chirag R. Barbhaiya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-936X)
- Helmut Pürerfellner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-8495)
- Stylianos E. Tzeis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2007-1928)
- Luis Carlos Sáenz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-4720)
- Elaine Y. Wan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5328-7282)
- Isabelle Nault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2156-4625)
- Luigi Di Biase (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-4047)
- Gerhard Hindricks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-0773)
- Jonathan Paul Piccini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0772-2404)
- Kevin L. Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-5396)
- Hugh G Calkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9262-9433)
- Minglong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9844-486X)
- Tina Baykaner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0476-2972)
- Takashi Nitta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3068-0550)
- Mark O’Neill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6070-7177)
- Boris Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5347-9906)
- Prashanthan Sanders (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-8429)
- Mark La Meir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6261-5110)
- Serge Bovéda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-7042)
- Atul Verma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1020-9727)
- Gregory E. Supple (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-5139)
- Tom J. R. De Potter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-114X)
- Nicolas Derval (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6189-1308)
- Claudio Tondo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8500-8313)
- Hui‐Nam Pak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3256-3620)
- Richard J. Schilling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0621-8241)
- Jonathan M. Kalman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6618-7184)
- Ngai‐Yin Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4650-6704)
- Katia Dyrda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0171-9311)
- Nikolaos Dagres (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0323-4956)
- Edward P. Gerstenfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-3521)
- Eduardo Saad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8879-9077)
- Andrea Natale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5487-0728)
- Alireza Sepehri Shamloo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4894-8664)
- Mattias Francis Duytschaever (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-0013)
- Jason G. Andrade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8493-5123)
- José Luís Merino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1737-1903)
- Mélèze Hocini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7957-8766)
- Tobias Reichlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7197-8415)
- Young‐Hoon Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4254-647X)
- Ralph J. Damiano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6361-6107)
- Gregory F. Michaud
- Shih‐Ann Chen
Institutions
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- University of Bern (CH)
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital (US)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Royal Adelaide Hospital (AU)
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
- St Thomas' Hospital (GB)
- Montefiore Medical Center (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
- Harvard University (US)
- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (AU)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Milan (IT)
- Yonsei University (KR)
- Cardiovascular Institute of the South (US)
- Korea University Medical Center (KR)
- Montreal Heart Institute (CA)
- University Hospital of Bern (CH)
- McGill University Health Centre (CA)
- Vancouver General Hospital (CA)
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TW)
- British Heart Foundation (GB)
- Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute (FR)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Centro Cardiologico Monzino (IT)
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TW)
- Hospital Viamed Valvanera (ES)
- Hospital Samaritano de São Paulo (BR)
- Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital (BE)
- Jewish Hospital (US)
- Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DE)
- Leipzig Heart Institute (DE)
- St David's Medical Center (US)
- AZ Sint-Jan (BE)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (BE)
- Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen (AT)
- Mitera Hospital (GR)
- Agaplesion Bethanien Krankenhaus (DE)
- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (CA)
- Institute of Cardiology (CO)
- Clinique Pasteur (FR)
- Scripps Clinic (US)
- Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia (US)
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München (DE)
- Jiangsu Province Hospital (CN)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- New York University (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Columbia University (US)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Nippon Medical School (JP)
- Nanjing Medical University (CN)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Arrhythmia
- Published
- 2024-10-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/joa3.13082
- Citations
- 56
- Primary Topic
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 22.51