2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

José Jalife | David Keane | Hsuan-Ming Tsao | Stanley Nattel | Gerhard Hindricks | Josep Brugada | Hugh Calkins | Michel Haissaguerre | David E Haines | Shih-Ann Chen | Jeremy N Ruskin | Paulus Kirchhof | Douglas L Packer | Kenneth Ellenbogen | Moussa Mansour | Andrea Natale | Carlo Pappone | Ralph J Damiano | Pierre Jais | John DiMarco | Riccardo Cappato | Yoshito Iesaka | Koonlawee Nademanee | Fred Morady | M. Chung | P. Kirchhof | S. Ernst | G. Hindricks | M. Mansour | J. Ruskin | M. Ezekowitz | J. Camm | H. Calkins | A. Verma | P. Ellinor | B. Lindsay | J. Brugada | K. Nademanee | F. Morady | F. Marchlinski | R. Cappato | K. Kuck | E. Prystowsky | H. Crijns | A. Curtis | K. Ellenbogen | S. Nattel | A. Natale | R. Damiano | M. Haissaguerre | J. Kautzner | L. Di Biase | P. Jais | D. Packer | H. Nakagawa | W. Jackman | P. Sanders | H. Tsao | Shih‐Ann Chen | E. Hylek | J. Jalife | D. W. Davies | D. Haines | Y. Iesaka | H. Kottkamp | P. McCarthy | J. Mont | C. Pappone | A. Raviele | R. Shemin | R. Schilling | G. Klein | J. Edgerton | J. Dimarco | E. Gerstenfeld | C. Tondo | J. Kalman | M. Reynolds | J. Day | T. Lewalter | J. Nielsen | D. Wilber | Young-Hoon Kim | E. Saad | L. Aguinaga | J. Akar | V. Badhwar | M. Duytschaever | G. Fenelon | K. Kumagai | Richard Lee | L. Macle | G. Michaud | E. Pokushalov | T. Yamane | N. D. de Groot | Hans Kottkamp | Michael D Ezekowitz | A John Camm | Antonio Raviele | Vivek Reddy | D Wyn Davies | V. Reddy | Francis E Marchlinski | Hiroshi Nakagawa | D. Keane | Young-Hoon Kim | Jonathan Kalman | George Klein | Richard J Shemin | Bruce D Lindsay | Patrick M McCarthy | Karl Heinz Kuck | Koichiro Kumagai | David Wilber | Harry J G Crijns | James Edgerton | Warren Jackman | J Lluis Mont | Eric Prystowsky | Young‐Hoon Kim | André d'Avila | A. Camm | K. Okumura | M. Scanavacca | Peng-Sheng Chen | Mauricio Scanavacca | Robert H. Helm | Mauricio I. Scanavacca

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