Description
Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS of the University of Adelaide discusses a worldwide survey on incidence, management, and prognosis of oesophageal fistula formation following atrial fibrillation catheter ablation: the POTTER-AF study. This study recently appeared in the European Heart Journal. He is joined by guests Jonathan P. Piccini, Sr., MD, MHS, FHRS of Duke Medical Center and Han S. Lim, MBBS, PhD, FHRS of the University of Melbourne.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze study data regarding the formation of oesophageal fistula formation after atrial fbrillation catheter ablation.
Article Authors and Podcast Contributors
Article Authors
Roland Richard Tilz, Vanessa Schmidt, Helmut Pürerfellner, Philippe Maury, KR Julian Chun, Martin Martinek, Christian Sohns, Boris Schmidt, Franck Mandel, Estelle Gandjbakhch, Mikael Laredo, Melanie Anuscha Gunawardene, Stephan Willems, Thomas Beiert, Martin Borlich, Leon Iden, Anna Füting, Raphael Spittler, Thomas Gaspar, Sergio Richter, Anja Schade, Malte Kuniss, Thomas Neumann, Alexander Francke, Carsten Wunderlich, Dong-In Shin, Dirk Grosse Meininghaus, Mike Foresti, Marc Bonsels, David Reek, Uwe Wiegand, Alexander Bauer, Andreas Metzner, Lars Eckardt, Sorin Stefan Popescu, Olaf Krahnefeld, Christian Sticherling, Michael Kühne, Dinh Quang Nguyen, Laurent Roten Ardan M. Saguner, Dominik Linz, Pepijn van der Voort, Bart A. Mulder, Johan Vijgen, Alexandre Almorad, Charles Guenancia, Laurent Fauchier, Serge Boveda, Y. De Greef, Antoine Da Costa, Pierre Jais, Nicolas Derval, Antoine Milhem, Laurence Jesel, Rodrigue Garcia, Herve Poty, Ziad Khoueiry, Julien Seitz, Julien Laborderie, Alexis Mechulan, Francois Brigadeau, Alexandre Zhao, Yannick Saludas, Olivier Piot, Nikhil Ahluwalia, Claire Martin, Jian Chen, Bor Antolic, Georgios Leventopoulos, Emin Evren Ozcan, Hikmet Yorgun, Serkan Cay, Kivanc Yalin, Maichel Sobhy Botros, Ahmed Taher Mahmoud, Ewa Jedrzejczyk-Patej, Osamu Inaba, Ken Okumura, Koichiro Ejima, Houman Khakpour, Noel Boyle, John N. Catanzaro, Vivek Reddy, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Andrea Natale, Hermann Blessberger, Bing Yang, Irene Stevens, Philipp Sommer, Christian Veltmann, Daniel Steven, Julia Vogler, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Jose Luis Merino, Ahmad Keelani, and Christian-H. Heeger
Podcast Contributors
Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, FHRS of the University of Adelaide
Jonathan P. Piccini, Sr., MD, MHS, FHRS of Duke Medical Center
Han S. Lim, MBBS, PhD, FHRS of the University of Melbourne
Disclosure Policy
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All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.Host Disclosure(s):
P. Sanders: Research (Contracted Grants for PIs Named Investigators Only): Boston Scientific, Abbott, Medtronic, PaceMate, Becton Dickinson, CathRx; Advisory Committee Membership: Medtronic, Boston Scientific, PaceMate, CathRx
Contributor Disclosure(s):
J. Piccini: Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee: Biotronik, AbbVie, LivaNova, Boston Scientific, Phillips, Medtronic, Electrophysiology, Frontiers, Abbott, UpToDate, Inc., Sanofi, Milestone Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals; Research (Contracted Grants for PIs Named Investigators Only): Boston Scientific, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, AMA, Abbott, Phillips, Element Science, Inc., iRhythm Technologies, NIH
H. Lim: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Staff Disclosure(s) (note: HRS staff are NOT in control of educational content. Disclosures are provided solely for full transparency to the learner):
J. Glenn: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
S. Sailor: No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.