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LEAD ADVISORS ESC CONGRESS 2015 Robert P. Giugliano, MD, SM Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Marc P. Bonaca, MD, MPH Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Jacob A. Udell, MD, MPH Women's College Hospital, Canada Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH Yale-New Haven Hospital, USA Matthew Cavender, MD, MPH Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Sameer Bansilal, MD, MS Mount Sinai Hospital, USA Erin A. Bohula May, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA FEATURED ARTICLES GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD 2 Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: What the Clinician Should Know 5 Issues in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Robert P. Giugliano, MD, SM Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Philip E. Aylward, BM BCh, PhD Flinders Medical Centre, Australia Sameer Bansilal, MD, MS Mount Sinai Hospital, USA Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands Erin A. Bohula May, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Marc P. Bonaca, MD, MPH Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Alfred Bove, MD, PhD Temple University, USA Conville Brown, MD Past-President, Caribbean Cardiac Society, Bahamas Matthew Cavender, MD, MPH Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA Ramon Corbalán Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile Anthony J. Dalby, MB, ChB, FCP Milpark Hospital, South Africa Gaetano M. De Ferrari, MD University of Pavia, Italy Anthony N. DeMaria, MD Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, USA Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH Yale-New Haven Hospital, USA Martin Didier, MBBS, DM(MED) Tapion Hospital, St. Lucia Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Canada Timothy J. Gardner, MD Past-President, American Heart Association, USA Gregory R. Giugliano, MD, SM Baystate Medical Center, USA Eva Gonçalvesova, MD, PhD Past-President, Slovak Society of Cardiology, Slovak Republic Shinya Goto, MD Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan Milan Luknar, MD National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Slovak Republic Raymond Massay, MD Bracebridge Medical Centre, Barbados Jose Carlos Nicolau, MD, PhD Heart Institute (InCor), Brazil Fausto Pinto, MD University of Lisbon, Portugal Dylan L. Steen, MD, MS University of Cincinnati, USA Jacob A. Udell, MD, MPH Women's College Hospital, Canada Uwe Zeymer, MD Klinikum Ludwigshafen and Institut für Herzinfarktforschung Ludwigshafen, Germany IN REVIEW FOCUS ON ARRHYTHMIAS Official Peer-Reviewed Highlights From ESC Congress 2015 CLInICAL TRIAL HIGHLIGHTS 7 LEADLESS II: Leadless Pacing Safe, Effective 8 MANTRA-PAF: Ablation Beats Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Reducing AF Burden at 5 Years 9 Education Program Fails to Improve Adherence to Apixaban: The AEGEAN Study 9 BELIEF Study: Left Atrial Appendage Ablation Improves Long-standing Persistent AF 10 EAST-AF: Short-term AAD Therapy After Ablation Fails to Improve Long-term Outcomes SELECTED UPDATES 11 Updates in ICD and CRT Technology 13 NOACs: Unanswered Questions in Clinical Practice 16 What's New in the Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias and Atrial Fibrillation? Your FREE access to ESC Congress content all year long www.escardio.org/365 PUBLISHER Associate Director, Editorial Development Beth Johnson Senior Manager, Editorial Project Team Claire Stanton Developmental Editors Umair Shafique, MSc Laura Ware Medical Writers Emma Hitt Nichols, PhD Jill Shuman Production Editor Stephanie Palermini Tel.: +1-781-897-5249 mdce@sagepub.com mdce.sagepub.com 400 West Cummings Park Suite 4000 Woburn, MA 01801 USA ESC CONGRESS 2015 IN REVIEW FOCUS ON ARRHYTHMIAS The Publisher does not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information supplied herein, nor for any opinion expressed. The Publisher, its agents, and employees will not be liable for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from the possession, publication, use of, or reliance on information obtained from this report. It is provided in good faith without express or implied warranty. 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Guidelines published by the ESC currently recommend catheter ablation as an alternative to antiarrhythmic drug therapy for patients with symptomatic recurrent paroxysmal AF with no or minimal structural heart disease, provided the procedure is performed by an experienced operator. More commonly, it is used as an accepted rhythm control therapy in patients in whom antiarrhythmic drugs are not effective. See page 2. ALSO nOacs: unanswered Questions in clinical Practice clinical trial Highlights updates in icd and cRt technology  http://www.escardio.org/365 http://mdce.sagepub.com http://www.iStockphoto.com/Eraxion

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