Eduardo B. Saad

TL;DR: This 2017 Consensus Statement is to provide a state-of-the-art review of the field of catheter and surgical ablation of AF and to report the findings of a writing group, convened by these five international societies.

TL;DR: This 2017 Consensus Statement is to provide a state-of-the-art review of the field of catheter and surgical ablation of AF and to report the findings of a writing group, convened by these five international societies.

TL;DR: Intracardiac echocardiography improves the outcome of cooled-tip PVI and power adjustment guided by direct visualization of microbubble formation reduces the risk of PV stenosis and improves long-term cure.

TL;DR: Mild and moderate degrees of PV narrowing are not associated with development of symptoms and seem to have no or minimal detrimental effect on pulmonary flow and the incidence of severe PV stenosis seems to be declining with better imaging techniques to ensure ostial isolation and to guide power titration.

TL;DR: Catheter technologies designed to achieve better lesion size appeared to have a positive impact on procedure time, fluoroscopy time, number of lesions, and overall efficacy.