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
Stylianos Tzeis, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, Jonathan M. Kalman, Eduardo Saad, Alireza Sepehri Shamloo, Jason G. Andrade, Chirag R. Barbhaiya, Tina Baykaner, Serge Bovéda, Hugh Calkins, Ngai‐Yin Chan, Minglong Chen, Shih‐Ann Chen, Nikolaos Dagres, Ralph J. Damiano, Tom De Potter, Isabel Deisenhofer, Nicolas Derval, Luigi Di Biase, Mattias Duytschaever, Katia Dyrda, Gerhard Hindricks, Mélèze Hocini, Young‐Hoon Kim, Mark La Meir, José Luís Merino, Gregory F. Michaud, Andrea Natale, Isabelle Nault, Santiago Nava, Takashi Nitta, Mark O’Neill, Hui‐Nam Pak, Jonathan P. Piccini, Helmut Pürerfellner, Tobias Reichlin, Luis Carlos Sáenz, Prashanthan Sanders, Richard J. Schilling, Boris Schmidt, Gregory E. Supple, Kevin L. Thomas, Claudio Tondo, Atul Verma, Elaine Y. Wan, Daniel Steven, Michael‐Joseph Agbayani, T. Jared Bunch, Aman Chugh, Juan Carlos Díaz, James V. Freeman, Carina Hardy, Hein Heidbüchel, Sofian Johar, Dominik Linz, Bart Maesen, Peter A. Noseworthy, Seil Oh, Andreu Porta‐Sánchez, Tatjana Potpara, Gerardo Rodríguez-Diez, Frédéric Sacher, Piotr Suwalski, Serge A. Trines
Abstract
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 .