Title: Natural History of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implanted at or after the Age of 70 years in a Veteran Population: A Single Center Study

Credits: Tarek Ajam, MD Vikas Kalra, MD Changyu Shen, PhD Xiaochen Li MS Sandeep Gautam, MD Thomas Kambur, MD Mamta Barmeda, BSc Kyle W. Yancey, MD Samer Ajam, MD Jason Garlie, MD John M. Miller, MD Rahul Jain, MD, MPH

Title: Improved Resource Utilization With Similar Efficacy During Early Adoption of Cryoballoon Pulmonary Vein Isolation as Compared to Radiofrequency Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Donald Siddoway, Mati Friehling, Andrew Voigt, Samir Saba, Sandeep Jain

Title: Hiatal Hernia Is Associated With an Increased Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation in Young Patients

Credits: Ranjini R. Roy, Sandeep Sagar, T. Jared Bunch, Wahaj Aman, Daniel J. Crusan, Komandoor Srivathsan, Samuel J. Asirvatham, Win K. Shen, Arshad Jahangir

Title: Left atrial thrombosis despite Dabigatran therapy

Credits: Anil Pandit, Fayaz A Hakim, Komandoor Srivathsan, John J Lynch

Title: Altered Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Human Chronic Atrial Fibrillation

Credits: Eleonora Grandi, Antony J. Workman, Sandeep V. Pandit

Title: Invasive Management of Atrial Fibrillation and the Elderly

Credits: Sandeep M. Patel, MD, Samuel J. Asirvatham, MD, FHRS, FACC

Dr. Anil Pandit, MD.

Affiliation: Anil Pandit, MD is currently a fellow at Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship Program, Mayo Clinic, Arizona. He completed Internal Medicine Residency at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Before coming to the United States, he worked as a research fellow at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal. He is interested in clinical research in cardiovascular diseases and has presented and published papers in national as well international journals.

Dr. Sandeep K. Jain, MD, FACC, FHRS.

Affiliation: Dr. Jain is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology with an interest in atrial fibrillation. He is the Director of the UPMC Passavant Electrophysiology Laboratory and Co-Director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation in the Heart and Vascular Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.