2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2012 Mar;33(2):171-257. doi: 10.1007/s10840-012-9672-7.

Abstract

This is a report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation, developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS), and in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). This is endorsed by the governing bodies of the ACC Foundation, the AHA, the ECAS, the EHRA, the STS, the APHRS, and the HRS.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advisory Committees
  • Atrial Fibrillation / diagnosis*
  • Atrial Fibrillation / mortality
  • Atrial Fibrillation / surgery*
  • Catheter Ablation / methods*
  • Catheter Ablation / mortality
  • Catheter Ablation / standards
  • Clinical Trials as Topic*
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • International Cooperation
  • Male
  • Patient Selection
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
  • Research Design
  • Risk Assessment
  • Societies, Medical
  • Survival Analysis
  • Treatment Outcome