Title: Optimizing Access to Care and Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Dhanunjaya (DJ)Lakkireddy

Title: Barriers to Emergency Department Utilization of AFIB Protocol in Uncomplicated Lone AFIB Patients

Credits: T Britt DO, JP Janson DO, T Knisely MPH, VA LaBond MD

Title: Comparison of Cryoballoon and Hybrid Surgical Posterior Wall Isolation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation to Conventional Ablation.

Credits: Eric Nordsieck MD*, Xin J. Zhang MD*, Pankaj Malhotra MD, Dali Fan MD*, Nayereh G. Pezeshkian MD* FHRS and Uma N. Srivatsa MBBS, MAS, FHRS*

Title: Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Patients with Preserved or Reduced Ejection Fraction. Prognostic significance of Rhythm control strategy with Catheter Ablation

Credits: Nicolás Vecchio1, Leonardo Ripa2, Agustín Orosco3, Leandro Tomas1, Ignacio Mondragón3, Adriana Acosta4, Lujan Talavera4, Santiago Rivera4, Gastón Albina4, Mirta Diez5, Fernando Scazzuso6

Title: Immediate And Long Term Effects Of Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty On Atrial Conduction Velocities In Patients With Mitral Stenosis

Credits: Hicaz Zencirkiran Agus MD1, Serkan Kahraman MD1, Begum Uygur MD1, Arda Guler MD1, Gokhan Demirci MD1, Ali Kemal Kalkan MD1, Mehmet Erturk MD1, MustafaYildiz PhD1

Title: Hybrid Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia: a Single-Centre Experience.

Credits: Mindy Vroomen MD1, Bart Maesen MD, PhD2, Mark La Meir MD, PhD2,3, Justin G.L. Luermans MD, PhD1, Kevin Vernooy MD, PhD1 Jos G. Maessen MD, PhD2, Harry J. Crijns, MD, PhD1, Laurent Pison, MD, PhD1

Title: Predictors of Long-Term outcome in Patients Undergoing a First Repeat Ablation Consisting Solely of Re-isolation of Reconnected Pulmonary Veins

Credits: Juan-Pablo Abugattas MD1,2, Bruno Schwagten MD, PhD1, Jeroen De Cocker MD1, Hugo-Enrique Coutiño, MD2, Francesca Salghetti, MD2, Varnavas Varnavas, MD, PhD2, Erwin Ströker MD2, Juan Sieira MD, PhD2, Michael Wolf MD1, Pedro Brugada MD, PhD2, Carlo de Asmundis MD PhD2, Gian-Battista Chierchia MD, PhD2, Yves De Greef, MD, PhD1,2.

Title: Protecting the Esophagus from Thermal Injury During Radio Frequency Ablation with an Esophageal Cooling Device.

Credits: Marcela Mercado Montoya1, MS, Steven Mickelsen2, MD, Brad Clark3, DO, Martin Arnold4, MD, Joseph Hanks5, BS, Eric Sauter6, BS, Erik Kulstad7, MD, MS

Title: Robotic Navigation shows Superior Improvement in Efficiency for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

Credits: Anna Maria Elisabeth Noten MD1, Zsuzsanna Kis MD1, Ferdi Akca MD, PhD1, Rohit Bhagwandien MD1, Sip Wijchers MD1, Sing-Chien Yap MD, PhD1, Tamas Szili-Torok MD, PhD1

Title: Clinical and Procedural Effects of Transitioning to Contact Force Guided Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Daniel R. Frisch, Sean J. Dikdan

Title: AF HeartTeam� Guided Indication for Stand-alone Thoracoscopic Left Atrial Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure

Credits: Sacha P. Salzberg1, Wim-Jan van Boven1, Christophe Wyss1, David Hürlimann1, Ivano Reho1, Thomas Zerm3, Georg Noll1, Maximilian Y. Emmert2, Roberto Corti 1, Jürg Grünenfelder1

Title: Incomplete endothelialization of WatchmanTM Device: Predictors and Implications from Two Cases

Credits: Sharan Prakash Sharma, MD*, David Singh, MD#, Dean Nakamura, MD#, Rakesh Gopinathannair, MD*, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD*^

Title: Bipolar Voltage Mapping for the Evaluation of Atrial Substrate: Can We Overcome the Challenge of Directionality?

Credits: Takanori Yamaguchi, MD, Akira Fukui, MD, PhD, and Koichi Node, MD, PhD