Title: Contact-Force Guided Posterior Wall Isolation as an Adjunctive Ablation Strategy for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Giusy Sirico, Domenico Sirico, Andrea Montisci, Enrico Cerrato, Martina Morosato, Stefania Panigada, Luca Ottaviano, Valerio De Sanctis, Massimo Mantica

Title: Prospective Evaluation of Lesion Index-Guided Pulmonary Vein Isolation Technique in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: 1-Year Follow-Up.

Credits: Luca De Mattia, Martino Crosato, Stefano Indiani, Elena Causin, Claudia Licciardello, Paolo Antonio Maria Squasi, Alessandro De Leo, Vittorio Calzolari

Title: Thermal Field in Cryoablation Procedures for Pulmonary Veins Isolation: Importance of Esophageal Temperature Monitoring.

Credits: Antonio Fasano MD, Luca Anfuso MD, Giuseppe Arena MD, Claudio Pandozi MD

Title: Basic Properties and Clinical Applications of the Intracardiac ECG

Credits: Francesco Zanon, MD, FESC, FHRS, Lina Marcantoni, MD, Gianni Pastore, MD, Enrico Baracca, MD, Silvio Aggio, MD, Franco Di Gregorio, Biol.Sc.D, Alberto Barbetta, E.Eng, Mauro Carraro, MD, Claudio Picariello, MD, Luca Conte, MD, Loris Roncon, MD

Title: Safety and necessity of thermal esophageal probes during radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

Credits: Antonio Fasano, Emeritus, Luca Anfuso, Stefano. Bozzi, Claudio Pandozi

Title: Clinical use and limitations of non-invasive electrophysiological tests in patients with atrial fibrillation

Credits: Valentina D.A, Corino, Luca T, Mainardi, Frida Sandberg, Leif Sörnmo, Pyotr G. Platonov

Title: Ajmaline challenge to unmask infrahisian disease in patients with recurrent and unexplained syncope, preserved ejection fraction, with or without conduction abnormalities on surface ECG

Credits: Francesco Pentimalli, Luca Bacino, Matteo Ghione, Giambattista Siri, Massimo Gazzarata, Paolo Bellotti

Title: A questionable indication for ICD extraction after successful VT ablation

Credits: Luca Segreti, MD, Andrea Di Cori, MD, Giulio Zucchelli, MD, PhD, Ezio Soldati, MD, Giovanni Coluccia, MD, Stefano Viani, MD, Luca Paperini, MD, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, MD, FESC

Title: Sudden death after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Are Bradyarrhythmias always the cause?

Credits: Lida P.Papavasileiou, Antonios Halapas, Michael Chrisocheris, Kyriakos Bellos, Nikolaos Bouboulis, Stratis Pattakos, Georgios Zervopoulos, Luca Santini, Konstantinos Spargias, Francesco Romeo, Giovanni Forleo, Theodoros Apostolopoulos

Title: Exploring the potential role of catheter ablation in patients with asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. Should we move away from symptom relief?

Credits: Giovanni B Forleo, Luigi Di Biase, Domenico G Della Rocca, Luca Santini, Gaetano Fassini, Andrea Natale, Claudio Tondo

Title: Hybrid Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation - Where the Knife meets the Catheter

Credits: Antonio Curnis, MD, Gianluigi Bisleri, MD, Luca Bontempi, MD, Francesca Salghetti, MD, Manuel Cerini, MD, Alessandro Lipari, MD, Carlo Pagnoni, MD, Francesca Vassanelli, MD, Claudio Muneretto, MD

Title: Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Pregnancy

Credits: Luca Cacciotti, MD, Ilaria Passaseo, MD

Dr. Luca Segreti, MD.

Affiliation: Luca Segreti, Medical Doctor, Second Cardiology Division, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy. Medicine Graduation in 2002, University Hospital of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Cardiology Degree in 2006, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy. EHRA Certification in Cardiac Pacing in 2013. EHRA Certification in Electrophysiology in 2013. ESC 2013 Moderated Poster Award in the Session: The Bad and the Ugly of Device Therapy. Clinical Experience in Cardiac Pacing, Transvenous Lead Extraction, Electrophysyology and Catheter Ablation. Author or co-author of more than 20 of published articles on pacing and electrophysiology.

Dr. Luca T. Mainardi, MD.

Affiliation: Luca Mainardi is Associate Professor and member of the board of the PhD track in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano. Member of the Directory Board of the Italian National Group of Bioengineering (GNB) in the period 2004-2007, he is the elected Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) WG7 on Biomedical Pattern Recognition. Since 2016 he is also the vice-Chair of the EMBS TC on Biomedical Signal Processing.