Programme
Thursday, February 21, 2019
| 07:45 - 08:00 | Welcome | J. Maessen |
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Introductory Lecture | B. Maesen - M. Duytschaever |
| How surgeons and EP should interact? | R. Schuessler | |
| 08.45 - 09.45 | AF Mechanisms | B. Maesen - |
| Body mass index, fatty infiltration and persistence of AF | D. Lau | |
| Rotational activity and conduction block | U. Schotten | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Interactive session: when mapping made the difference for AF ablation | L. Pison - M. La Meir |
| From ectopic PV to non-invasive substrate detection | M. Duytschaever | |
| Complex and latrogenic ATs Unravelled by Ultra High Density Mapping | Y. Blaauw | |
| MRI and mapping of gaps to reduce recurrences | L. Mont | |
| Future of AF ablation beyond PVI | N. Derval | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch symposium - Medtronic | |
| Stand-alone thoracosopic left atrial posterior box isolation with the Gemini-S bipolar RF clamp | A. Tjon | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Stand alone or hybrid? | B. Maesen - Y. Blaauw |
| Stand-alone thoracoscopic AF ablation | T. van Brakel | |
| Catheter ablation is the primary solution | P. Sommer | |
| Cox-Maze IV: the golden standard? | N. Ad | |
| What to gain with a hybrid approach? | G.B. Chierchia | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 17:10 | Hybrid AF ablation of AF | J. Luermans - J. Maessen |
| Starting up a hybrid program | Y. Blaauw | |
| Convergent - a siginificant alternative | S. Ahsan | |
| HARTCAP-AF and other trials, an overview | L. Pison | |
| EHAFAR: landscape of hybrid surgical and surgical ablation in Europe | M. La Meir | |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | Social event | U. Schotten |
| 18:15 - 19:15 | AF in 2019 | M. Allessie |
| 19:45 - 22:00 | Diner |