Influence of proton pump inhibitors on the incidence and clinical course of oesophageal fistula following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: a subanalysis of the POTTER-AF study

Affiliations

• ¹ Heart Center Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn D-53127, Germany.
• ² Department of Rhythmology, University Heart Center Lübeck, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck D-23538, Germany.
• ³ Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁴ Interne 2, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria.
• ⁵ Kliniken für Elektrophysiologie/Rhythmologie, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
• ⁶ Heart Center Bremen, Electrophysiology Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
• ⁷ Department for Electrophysiology, Heart Center University Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁸ MVZ CCB am Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
• ¹⁰ Sorbonne Université, APHP, Pitié Salpêtrière University Hospital, Cardiology Institute, Paris, France.
• ¹¹ Klinik für Kardiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹² Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken (Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg), Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Electrophysiology, Alfred Krupp Hospital, Essen, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiology II/Electrophysiology, Center for Cardiology, University Hospital Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, Herzzentrum Dresden, University Clinic, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Department of Interventional Electrophysiology, Helios Hospital Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Department of Rhythmology, Rhoen Klinikum Campus Bad Neustadt/Saale, Bad Neustadt/Saale, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
• ²⁰ Helios Klinikum Pirna, Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Pirna, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre Niederrhein, Helios Clinic Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.
• ²² Department of Cardiology, Medical University Lausitz - Carl Thiem, Cottbus, Germany.
• ²³ Klinik für Kardiologie, Kliniken Maria Hilf GmbH, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
• ²⁴ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
• ²⁵ Sana-Klinikum Remscheid GmbH, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität zu Köln, Remscheid, Germany.
• ²⁶ Innere Medizin I, Diak-Klinikum Schwäbisch Hall und Klinikum Crailsheim, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
• ²⁷ Klinik für Kardiologie, Universitäres Herz- und Gefäßzentrum, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ²⁸ Department of Cardiology II (Electrophysiology), University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
• ²⁹ Medizinische Klinik II, Sana Kliniken Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ³⁰ Deaprtment of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ³¹ Kardiologie und Rhythmologie, St. Vinzenz-Hospital Köln, Köln, Germany.
• ³² Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ³³ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ³⁴ Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
• ³⁵ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ³⁶ Heart Center Hasselt, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium.
• ³⁷ Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Postgraduate Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, European Reference Networks Guard-Heart, Brussels, Belgium.
• ³⁸ Cardiology Department, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France.
• ³⁹ Service de Cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Trousseau, Tours, France.
• ⁴⁰ Cardiology - Heart Rhythm Management Department, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France.
• ⁴¹ Department of Cardiology, ZNA Heart Centre, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁴² Division of Cardiology, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France.
• ⁴³ CHU Bordeaux, Univ. Bordeaux, IHU LIRYC ANR-10-IAHU-04, Bordeaux, France.
• ⁴⁴ Cardiology Department, La Rochelle Hospital, La Rochelle, France.
• ⁴⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Strasbourg, Srasbourg, France.
• ⁴⁶ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
• ⁴⁷ Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1402, University Hospital of Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
• ⁴⁸ Cardiologie, Clinique Tonkin, Lyon, France.
• ⁴⁹ Service de Cardiologie, Clinique Saint Pierre, Perpignan, France.
• ⁵⁰ Electrophysiology, Hospital St. Joseph, Marseille, France.
• ⁵¹ Cardiology Department, Bayonne Hospital, Bayonne, France.
• ⁵² Service de Cardiologie, Hospital Clairval, Marseille, France.
• ⁵³ Service Cardiologie, University Hospital Lille, Lille, France.
• ⁵⁴ Cardiologie et Vasculaire, Clinique Ambroise Parée, Paris, France.
• ⁵⁵ Cardiologie, Clinique Pôle Santé République, Clermont Ferrand, France.
• ⁵⁶ Centre Cardiologie du Nord, Saint Denis, France.
• ⁵⁷ Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁵⁸ Wiliam Harvey Heart Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ⁵⁹ Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁶⁰ Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ⁶¹ Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ⁶² Department of Cardiology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
• ⁶³ Heart Rhythm Management Center, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey.
• ⁶⁴ Department of Cardiology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
• ⁶⁵ Department of Cardiology, Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, University of Health Sciences, Yuksek Ihtisas Cardiovascular Building, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
• ⁶⁶ Department of Cardiology, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁶⁷ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁶⁸ Department of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases and Electrotherapy, Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
• ⁶⁹ Department of Cardiology, Japanese Red Cross Saitama Hospital, Saitama, Japan.
• ⁷⁰ Division of Cardiology, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
• ⁷¹ Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁷² UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
• ⁷³ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University Health, Greenville, NC, USA.
• ⁷⁴ Helmsley Electrophysiology Center, Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁷⁵ Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St. David's Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA.
• ⁷⁶ Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Division of Cardiology, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
• ⁷⁷ Metro Health Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁷⁸ Department of Cardiology, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria.
• ⁷⁹ Department of Cardiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁸⁰ La Paz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Idipaz, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸¹ German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany.