Title: Procedural Safety and Efficacy for Pulmonary Vein Isolation with the Novel Polarxâ„¢ Cryoablation System: A Propensity Score Matched Comparison with the Arctic Frontâ„¢ Cryoballoon in the Setting of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Joerelle Mojica, Felicia Lipartiti, Maysam Al Housari, GezimBala, ShuichiroKazawa, Vincenzo Miraglia, Cinzia Monaco, Ingrid Overeinder, AntanasStrazdas, RobbertRamak, Gaetano Paparella, Juan Sieira, Lucio Capulzini, Antonio Sorgente, Erwin Stroker, Pedro Brugada, Carlo De Asmundis, Gian-Battista Chierchia

Title: Standardized Quantification of Vagal Denervation by Extracardiac Vagal Stimulation During Second Generation Cryoballoon Ablation: a Vein per Vein Analysis

Credits: Thiago Guimarães Osório, Gian-Battista Chierchia, Riccardo Maj, Hugo-Enrique Coutiño, Erwin Ströker, Juan Sieira, Francesca Salghetti, Muryo Terasawa, Paul-Adrian C?lburean, Alessandro Rizzo, Gianluca Borio, Oriana Scala, Alessio Galli, Pedro Brugada, Carlo de Asmundis

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: Real-Time Recordings in Cryoballoon Pulmonary Veins Isolation: Comparison Between the 25mm and the 20mm Achieve Catheters

Credits: Francesca Salghetti MD, Juan-Pablo Abugattas MD, Valentina De Regibus MD, Saverio Iacopino MD, Ken Takarada MD, Erwin Ströker MD, Hugo-Enrique Coutiño MD, Ian Lusoc MD, Juan Sieira MD , Lucio Capulzini MD , Giacomo Mugnai MD PhD , Vincent Umbrain MD, PhD, Stefan Beckers MD, Pedro Brugada MD, PhD, Carlo de Asmundis MD, PhD and Gian-Battista Chierchia MD, PhD

Title: Hypothetical “anatomy” of Brugada phenomenon: “long QT sine long QT” syndrome implicating morphologically undefined specific “Brugada’s myocells”

Credits: Petras Stirbys

Title: Happy Holidays!!!

Credits: Dhanunjaya (DJ) Lakkireddy, Andrea Natale

Title: Brugada syndrome:Risk stratification and management

Credits: Yoshifusa Aizawa

Title: Brugada syndrome: risk stratification and management

Credits: Konstantinos P. Letsas, Stamatis Georgopoulos, Konstantinos Vlachos, Nikolaos karamichalakis, Ioannis Liatakis, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Tong Liu, Michael Efremidis, Antonios Sideris

Title: A difficult case of left atrial flutter

Credits: Reinder Evertz MD, Juan Acosta MD, David Andreu M.Sc, Josep Brugada MD, PhD, Lluis Mont MD, PhD

Title: Two-year follow-up in atrial fibrillation patients referred for catheter ablation of the atrioventricular node

Credits: Moisés Rodríguez-Mañero, Claudia Pujol Salvador, Luis Martínez-Sande, Carlo de Asmundis, Gian-Battista Chierchia, Alfonso Macías Gallego, Xulio A. Fernández-López, Juan José Gavira-Gómez, Javier García-Seara, Naira Calvo, Pedro Brugada, José Ramón González-Juanatey, Ignacio García-Bolao

Title: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation - Worth the Effort?

Credits: António M Ferreira, MD, Pedro Carmo, MD, Pedro Adragão, MD, PhD.

Title: The Use of Cryoballoon Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation: Simplifying Pulmonary Vein Isolation?

Credits: Gian Battista Chierchia, MD, Antonio Sorgente, MD, Andrea Sarkozy, MD, Carlo de Asmundis, MD, Pedro Brugada, MD, PhD

Dr. Bahij Kreidieh, MD.

Affiliation: Dr Kreidieh is a Medical graduate of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He is currently completing his post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Houston Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center. His research interests include Brugada syndrome, Inappropriate sinus tachycardia, Catheter ablation techniques and Atrial fibrillation, particularly centered about the role/impact of the left atrial appendage?. Dr Kreidieh will commence Internal Medicine residency training in the University of Miami/JFK Medical Center in June, 2016.

Dr. Pedro Brugada, .

Affiliation: Cardiovascular Division, UZ Brussel-VUB, Brussels, Belgium