Atrial Cardiomyopathy Revisited - Evolution of a Concept. A Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC, the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the Asian Pacific Heart Rhythm Association (APHRS), and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS)

Andreas Goette; Domenico Corradi; Dobromir Dobrev; Luis Aguinaga; Jose-Angel Cabrera; Sumeet S Chugh; Joris R de Groot; Laurie Soulat-Dufour; Guilherme Fenelon; Stephane N Hatem; Jose Jalife; Yenn-Jiang Lin; Gregory Y H Lip; Gregory M Marcus; Katherine T Murray; Hui-Nam Pak; Ulrich Schotten; Naohiko Takahashi; Takanori Yamaguchi; William A Zoghbi; Stanley Nattel

doi:10.1093/europace/euae204

Atrial Cardiomyopathy Revisited - Evolution of a Concept. A Clinical Consensus Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC, the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the Asian Pacific Heart Rhythm Association (APHRS), and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS)

Europace. 2024 Jul 30:euae204. doi: 10.1093/europace/euae204. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Andreas Goette¹, Domenico Corradi², Dobromir Dobrev³, Luis Aguinaga⁴, Jose-Angel Cabrera⁵, Sumeet S Chugh⁶, Joris R de Groot⁷, Laurie Soulat-Dufour⁸, Guilherme Fenelon⁹, Stephane N Hatem¹⁰, Jose Jalife¹¹, Yenn-Jiang Lin¹², Gregory Y H Lip¹³, Gregory M Marcus¹⁴, Katherine T Murray¹⁵, Hui-Nam Pak¹⁶, Ulrich Schotten¹⁷, Naohiko Takahashi¹⁸, Takanori Yamaguchi¹⁹, William A Zoghbi²⁰, Stanley Nattel²¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, St. Vincenz-Hospital Paderborn; MAESTRIA Consortium at AFNET Münster, Germany; Otto-von-Guericke University, Medical Faculty, Magdeburg, Germany.
² Department of Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Pathology; Center of Excellence for Toxicological Research (CERT), University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
³ Institute of Pharmacology, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; Montréal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Integrative Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ Director Centro Integral de Arritmias Tucumán. Argentina.
⁵ Hospital Universitario QuirónSalud. Madrid. European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁷ University of Amsterdam, Department of Cardiology; Cardiovascular Sciences, Heart Failure and Arrhythmias, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Cardiology, Saint Antoine and Tenon Hospital, AP-HP, Unité INSERM UMRS 1166 Unité de recherche sur les maladies cardiovasculaires et métaboliques, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire, Institut de Cardiométabolisme et Nutrition (ICAN), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
⁹ Federal University of Sao Paulo, San Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital; Sorbonne University; INSERM UMR_S1166; Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition-ICAN, Paris, France.
¹¹ Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
¹² Cardiovascular Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine National Yang-Ming University Taipei, Taiwan.
¹³ Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and Danish Center for Health Services Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
¹⁴ Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
¹⁵ Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
¹⁶ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.
¹⁷ Depts. of Physiology and Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University and Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, MAESTRIA Consortium at AFNET Münster, Germany.
¹⁸ Department of Cardiology and Clinical Examination, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Japan.
¹⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.
²⁰ Department of Cardiology, Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
²¹ Montréal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Institute of Pharmacology, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Duisburg, Essen, Germany.

PMID: 39077825
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euae204

Abstract

Developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), (a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)) the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin America Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS).

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; atrium; cardiomyopathy; fibrosis; mechanisms; pathophysiology; stroke.