PFA Live Case Summit 2024

Welcome to the PFA Live Case Summit On-Demand!

We are pleased to offer complimentary on-demand access to the complete proceedings from the PFA Live Case Summit. This event, which occurred at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center during Heart Rhythm 2024 on May 16^th, was live-streamed globally. It featured 16 interactive live and recorded cases from esteemed institutions across five sessions.

The On-Demand library is a comprehensive resource that includes, in addition to the Main Session proceedings, exclusive educational programming live-streamed in real-time during the on-site lunch and afternoon break.

Agenda

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Welcome and Introductions

Vivek Reddy, MD

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Session I – Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Moderator: Vivek Reddy, MD
Digital Moderator: Shephal Doshi, MD
Panelists: Boris Schmidt, MD, Andrea Sarkozy, MD, Damijan Miklavčič, PhD, Prashanthan Sanders, MD, PhD, Andreas Metzner, MD, and Serge Boveda, MD

Live Case: PVI with Focal Lattice-Tip (Affera™-Sphere-9™; Medtronic)
Live Case Site: University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg
Live Case Operator: Andreas Rillig, MD

Live Case: PVI + PWA with Variable Loop (VARIPULSE™; Biosense Webster)
Live Case Site: Massachusetts General Hospital
Live Case Operator: Moussa Mansour, MD

Live Case: PVI with Pentaspline & LAAC (FARAWAVE™/WATCHMAN FLX Pro™, Boston Scientific)
Live Case Site: Mount Sinai Hospital
Live Operators: Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, and Mohit Turagam, MD

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Session II – Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Moderator: Dhiraj Gupta, MD, PhD
Digital Moderator: Nassir Marrouche, MD
Panelists: Nishaki Mehta, MD, Pierre Jaïs, MD, Tobias Reichlin, MD, Hans Kottkamp, MD, Philipp Sommer, MD, and Daniel Scherr, MD

Live Case: PVI+PWA+CTI (iv NTG) with Pentaspline (FARAWAVE™; Boston Scientific)
Live Case Site: Mount Sinai Hospital
Live Case Operators: Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD, and Mohit Turagam, MD

Recorded Case: Single-Shot PVI with Balloon-Basket Array (Volt™; Abbott)
Recorded Case Site/Operator: University Heart Center Lübeck
Recorded Case Operators: Roland Tilz, MD, Julia Vogler, MD, and Roman Mamaev, MD

Recorded Case: PVI with Multielectrode Array (Globe^®; Kardium)
Recorded Case Site: Sutter Health, AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center
Recorded Case Operator: Christopher Woods, MD, PhD

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Session III - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Moderator: Devi Nair, MD
Digital Moderator: Vivek Reddy, MD
Panelists: Oussama Wazni, MD, Isabel Deisenhofer, MD, Atul Verma, MD, Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, Arash Aryana, MD, and Amin Al-Ahmad, MD

Live Case: PVI with Circular Array (PulseSelect™; Medtronic)
Live Case Site: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute
Live Case Operator: David Burkhardt, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD

Live Case: PVI+ with Nanosecond PFA (CellFX^® nsPFA™; Pulse Biosciences)
Live Case Site: Na Homolce Hospital
Live Case Operators: Jan Petru, MD, and Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD

Recorded Case: Single-Shot PVI with Balloon-Basket Array (Volt™; Abbott)
Recorded Case Site: Na Homolce Hospital
Recorded Case Operators: Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD

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Session IV - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Moderator: Francis Marchlinski, MD
Digital Moderator: Elad Anter, MD
Panelists: Mélèze Hocini, MD, PhD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, Andre D’Avila, MD, PhD, Thomas Deneke, MD, Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, and Lucas Boersma, MD, PhD

Recorded Case: PVI with a Lattice Single-shot (Affera™ - Sphere360™; Medtronic)
Recorded Case Site: Na Homolce Hospital
Recorded Case Site Operators: Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD

Recorded Case: PVI with Pentaspline (FARAWAVE™; Boston Scientific)
Recorded Case Site: Na Homolce Hospital
Recorded Case Operator: Vivek Reddy, MD

Recorded Case: VT with Focal Lattice-Tip (Affera™-Sphere-9™; Medtronic)
Recorded Case Site: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Recorded Case Operator: Josef Kautzner, MD

Recorded Case: VT with Focal Force-Sensing PFA (FieldForce™; Field Medical)
Recorded Case Site: Na Homolce Hospital
Recorded Case Operators: Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, and Vivek Reddy, MD

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Session V - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Moderator: Vivek Reddy, MD
Digital Moderator: Melanie Gunawardene, MD
Panelists: Dinesh Sharma, MD, Andrea Natale, MD, Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, Kars Neven, MD, PhD, Moussa Mansour, MD, and Richard Schilling, MD

Live Case: Redo AF Ablation with Pentaspline Catheter (FARAWAVE™; Boston Scientific)
Live Case Site: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute
Live Case Operators: Joseph Gallinghouse, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD

Recorded Case: PVI with Large Focal PFA (OMNYPULSE™; Biosense Webster)
Recorded Case Site: OLV Hospital
Recorded Case Operator: Tom De Potter, MD

Recorded Case: PVI with 8Fr RFA/PFA (THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH^® SF Dual-Energy; Biosense Webster)
Recorded Case Site: HCA Florida Miami
Recorded Case Operator: Jose Osorio, MD

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Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives

Moderator: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD
Panelists: KR Julian Chun, MD, Ignacio García-Bolao, MD, and Jose Osorio, MD

PFA Discussion with the Experts

Moderator: Brad Sutton, MD
Panel: Shephal Doshi, MD, and Tobias Reichlin, MD

Faculty

Program Chairs
Vivek Reddy, MD The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY		Srinivas Dukkipati, MD The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY
Faculty
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Elad Anter, MD Shamir Medical Center University of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel Arash Aryana, MD Mercy General Hospital Sacramento, CA Lucas Boersma, MD, PhD St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Serge Boveda, MD Clinic Pasteur Toulouse, France David Burkhardt, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Andre d’Avila, MD, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Isabel Deisenhofer, MD German Heart Centre Munich Munich, Germany Thomas Deneke, MD Klinikum Nuremberg University Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany Tom De Potter, MD OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD Montefiore Medical Center New York, NY Shephal Doshi, MD Providence Saint John’s Health Center Pacific Heart Institute Santa Monica, CA Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Joseph Gallinghouse, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Edward Gerstenfeld, MD University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA Melanie Gunawardene, MD Asklepios Hospital St. Georg Hamburg, Germany Dhiraj Gupta, MD, PhD Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Liverpool, United Kingdom Mélèze Hocini, MD, PhD Bordeaux University Hospital Bordeaux, France Pierre Jaïs, MD CH Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux Liryc Institute Pessac, France Josef Kautzner, MD Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague, Czech Republic Jacob Koruth, MD Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY Hans Kottkamp, MD Sana Hospitals Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD LANS Cardio Hamburg, Germany Roman Mamaev, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Moussa Mansour, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA Francis Marchlinski, MD University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, PA		Nassir Marrouche, MD Tulane Medical Center New Orleans, LA Nishaki Mehta, MD Corewell William Beaumont University Hospital Royal Oak, MI Andreas Metzner, MD University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany Damijan Miklavčič, PhD University of Ljubljana Ljubljana Slovenia Devi Nair, MD St. Bernard’s Heart & Vascular Center Jonesboro, AR Andrea Natale, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Kars Neven, MD, PhD Krupp Hospital Essen, Germany Jose Osorio, MD HCA Florida Miami Miami, FL Jan Petru, MD Na Homolce Hospital Prague, Czech Republic Tobias Reichlin, MD Bern University Hospital – Inselspital Bern, Switzerland Andreas Rillig, MD University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg Hamburg, Germany Prashanthan Sanders, MD, PhD Royal Adelaide Hospital Adelaide, Australia Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH Andrea Sarkozy, MD University Hospital of Brussels Brussels, Belgium Daniel Scherr, MD Medical University of Graz Graz, Austria Richard Schilling, MD St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, United Kingdom Boris Schmidt, MD Cardiovascular Center Bethanien Frankfurt, Germany Dinesh Sharma, MD Rooney Heart Institute at NCH Naples, FL Philipp Sommer, MD University of Bochum Bad Oeynhausen, Germany Roland Tilz, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Mohit Turagam, MD Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY Atul Verma, MD Southlake Regional Health Centre Montreal, Québec, Canada Julia Vogler, MD University Heart Center Lübeck Lübeck, Germany Oussama Wazni, MD Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH Christopher Woods, MD, PhD Sutter Health AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center San Francisco, CA

Live Case Sites and Operators

Massachusetts General Hospital • Boston, MA
Moussa Mansour, MD

Mount Sinai Hospital • New York, NY
Srinivas Dukkipati, MD, Jacob Koruth, MD and Mohit Turagam, MD

Na Homolce Hospital • Prague, Czech Republic
Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD, and Jan Petru, MD

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute • Austin, TX
David Burkhardt, MD, Joseph Gallinghouse, MD, and Andrea Natale, MD

University Heart and Vascular Center • Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Rillig, MD

Recorded Case Sites and Operators

HCA Florida Miami • Miami, FL
Jose Osorio, MD

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine • Prague, Czech Republic
Josef Kautzner, MD

Mount Sinai Hospital • New York, NY
Vivek Reddy, MD

Na Homolce Hospital • Prague, Czech Republic
Moritoshi Funasako, MD, PhD, Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, Jan Petru, MD and Vivek Reddy, MD

OLV Hospital • Aalst, Belgium
Tom De Potter, MD

Sutter Health, AF & Complex Arrhythmia Center • San Francisco, CA
Christopher Woods, MD, PhD

University Heart Center • Lübeck, Germany
Roland Tilz, MD, Julia Vogler, MD, and Roman Mamaev, MD

Special e-Programming

Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives

Moderator: Amin Al-Ahmad, MD
Panelists: KR Julian Chun, MD, Ignacio García-Bolao, MD, and Jose Osorio, MD

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Introduction
This special programming, which features a roundtable discussion amongst the experts, was distributed through the real-time live stream during the on-site lunch break.

Faculty
	Amin Al-Ahmad, MD Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute Austin, TX	Ignacio García-Bolao, MD Clínica Universidad de Navarra Pamplona, Spain

	KR Julian Chun, MD Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien Frankfurt, Germany	Jose Osorio, MD HCA Florida Miami Miami, FL

PFA Discussion with the Experts

Moderator: Brad Sutton, MD
Panel: Shephal Doshi, MD, and Tobias Reichlin, MD

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Introduction
This special programming, which features a discussion amongst the experts, was distributed through the real-time live stream during an on-site afternoon break.

Panel
	Shephal Doshi, MD Providence Saint John’s Health Center Pacific Heart Institute Santa Monica, CA	Brad Sutton, MD Chief Medical Officer – AF Solutions Boston Scientific

	Tobias Reichlin, MD Bern University Hospital – Inselspital Bern, Switzerland

“These special sessions were live-streamed during on-site breaks and were not part of the PFA Live Case Summit Official Sessions as planned by the Program Committee. The events are neither sponsored nor endorsed by the PFA Live Case Summit

Industry Partners

Industry Partners
We gratefully acknowledge our industry colleagues' generous support and dedication to developing innovations that continue to propel the field of Electrophysiology forward.

Thank You to our Industry Partners for providing Educational Grant Support
Boston Scientific • Biosense Webster, Inc. • Medtronic • Abbott
Field Medical • Kardium • Pulse Biosciences

Thank You to our Global Premier Live-Stream Sponsor
Boston Scientific

Welcome to the PFA Live Case Summit On-Demand!

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions

Session I – Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Session II – Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Session III - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Session IV - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Session V - Live/Recorded PFA Cases

Special Live Stream Programming - Access >>

Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives

PFA Discussion with the Experts

Faculty

Program Chairs

Faculty

Live Case Sites and Operators

Recorded Case Sites and Operators

Special e-Programming

Special e-Programming

Safety, Efficacy, and Durability of FARAPULSE PFA and Future Perspectives

Faculty

PFA Discussion with the Experts

Panel

Industry Partners

Industry Partners