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EHRA/HRS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus on Atrial cardiomyopathies: Definition, characterisation, and clinical implication Andreas Goette, (EHRA chair), Jonathan M. Kalman, (APHRS co-chair), Luis Aguinaga, (SOLAECE co-chair), Joseph Akar , Jose Angel Cabrera , Shih Ann Chen , Sumeet S. Chugh , Domenico Corradi , Andre D'Avila , Dobromir Dobrev , Guilherme Fenelon , Mario Gonzalez , Stephane N. Hatem, Robert Helm, Gerhard Hindricks , Siew Yen Ho , Brian Hoit , Jose Jalife , Young-Hoon Kim , Gregory Y.H. Lip , Chang-Sheng Ma , Gregory M. Marcus , Katherine Murray, Akihiko Nogami , Prashanthan Sanders , William Uribe , David R. Van Wagoner , Stanley Nattel, (HRS co-chair)

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