Lars Eckardt

Research interests

Publications

• 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

  European Heart Journal · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176

• A worldwide survey on incidence, management, and prognosis of oesophageal fistula formation following atrial fibrillation catheter ablation: the POTTER-AF study

  European Heart Journal · 2023 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad250

• Early diagnosis and better rhythm management to improve outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation: the 8th AFNET/EHRA consensus conference

  EP Europace · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euac062

• 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

  European Heart Journal · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac262

• Searching for atrial fibrillation: looking harder, looking longer, and in increasingly sophisticated ways. An EHRA position paper

  EP Europace · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euac144

• Systematic, early rhythm control strategy for atrial fibrillation in patients with or without symptoms: the EAST-AFNET 4 trial

  European Heart Journal · 2021 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab593

• Early Rhythm Control Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure

  Circulation · 2021 · 10.1161/circulationaha.121.056323

• Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2019422

• Preventive or Deferred Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Defibrillator (BERLIN VT)

  Circulation · 2020 · 10.1161/circulationaha.119.043400

• Primary Results From the Understanding Outcomes With the S-ICD in Primary Prevention Patients With Low Ejection Fraction (UNTOUCHED) Trial

  Circulation · 2020 · 10.1161/circulationaha.120.048728

• Edoxaban-based versus vitamin K antagonist-based antithrombotic regimen after successful coronary stenting in patients with atrial fibrillation (ENTRUST-AF PCI): a randomised, open-label, phase 3b trial

  The Lancet · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)31872-0

• Safety and efficacy outcomes of double vs. triple antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation following percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and meta-analysis of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant-based randomized clinical trials

  European Heart Journal · 2019 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz732

• Implant and Midterm Outcomes of the Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Registry

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2017 · 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.06.040

• Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence after Catheter Ablation: Data from the German Ablation Registry

  Scientific Reports · 2017 · 10.1038/s41598-017-16938-6

• Impact of Complete Versus Incomplete Circumferential Lines Around the Pulmonary Veins During Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

  Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circep.115.003337

• Occult Atrial Fibrillation in Cryptogenic Stroke

  Stroke · 2013 · 10.1161/strokeaha.111.676189

• Catheter ablation of stable ventricular tachycardia before defibrillator implantation in patients with coronary heart disease (VTACH): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

  The Lancet · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61755-4

• Long-Term Prognosis of Patients Diagnosed With Brugada Syndrome

  Circulation · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.109.887026

• Role of programmed ventricular stimulation in patients with Brugada syndrome: a meta-analysis of worldwide published data

  European Heart Journal · 2007 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm116

• A prospective study on spontaneous fluctuations between diagnostic and non-diagnostic ECGs in Brugada syndrome: implications for correct phenotyping and risk stratification

  European Heart Journal · 2006 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl205

• Long-Term Prognosis of Individuals With Right Precordial ST-Segment–Elevation Brugada Syndrome

  Circulation · 2005 · 10.1161/01.cir.0000153267.21278.8d

• Sodium channel gene (SCN5A) mutations in 44 index patients with Brugada syndrome: Different incidences in familial and sporadic disease

  Human Mutation · 2003 · 10.1002/humu.9144

• Genotype-phenotype relationship in Brugada syndrome: electrocardiographic features differentiate SCN5A-related patients from non–SCN5A-related patients

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2002 · 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01962-9

• Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction in Brugada Syndrome

  Circulation · 2002 · 10.1161/hc0602.103677

• Anterior-posterior versus anterior-lateral electrode positions for external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: a randomised trial

  The Lancet · 2002 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)11315-8

• Divergent Proarrhythmic Potential of Macrolide Antibiotics Despite Similar QT Prolongation: Fast Phase 3 Repolarization Prevents Early Afterdepolarizations and Torsade de Pointes

  Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2002 · 10.1124/jpet.102.037911

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