Invitation

We are pleased to invite you to join us for the second meeting of Europe AF.

Atrial fibrillation is recognized as an already enormous and increasing health-care problem. It is a complex arrhythmia which evolves in individual patients over time and with increasing risks especially for stroke. Its presence doubles the patients’ risk of death; it is associated with heart failure, a reduced quality of life and consumes important health care resources. Its management is also complex through its heterogeneity so that a wide variety of possible therapeutic strategies exist that are often used in combination in a number of possible hybrids. These include drugs to either control the heart rate or restore and maintain sinus rhythm, anticoagulation, pacing, various kinds of catheter ablation and surgery. Selecting the most appropriate of these in each patient can be difficult.

The purpose of Europe AF is to help with this process by ensuring that the latest information on the mechanisms, clinical manifestations and treatment of Atrial Fibrillation is presented. To ensure this, the data will be presented by an internationally renowned faculty of the world’s leading investigators in the field. There will also, again, be a session for patients to present their experience of AF and their management to the faculty and the delegates. New practical techniques will be demonstrated in sessions that will emphasise videos of these procedures.

As before, the meeting is intended to educate everyone from cardiology trainees, general physicians, cardiologists, specialist cardiac electrophysiologists and anyone affected in any way by atrial fibrillation.

We look forward to welcoming you to London in September 2009!

With Best Wishes,


D Wyn Davies St Mary's Hospital, London	Riccardo Cappato Policlinico San Donato, Milan