18
Nov
2017
16:20
GMT
Live Stream
Alternative Solutions: Epicardial Closure and Electrical Isolation of the LAA
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Overview
This live stream will be presented during the following session:
Session 9: Interesting and challenging cases
Case 4, presented by Thorsten Hanke, MD
Moderator: Lars Sondergaard, MD / Stefan Bertog, MD
Panelist: Bushra Rana, MD / Vijay Swarup, MD
Faculty:
![Thorsten Hanke, MD](https://assets.radcliffecardiology.com/s3fs-public/author/2020-12/Thorsten%20Hanke.png)
Thorsten Hanke, MD
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Learning objective
- This presentation is intended to introduce minimal invasive surgical clipping techniques for epicardial left atrial appendage closure as well as electrical isolation and aims at electrophysiological interventional cardiologists.
Faculty Biographies
![Thorsten Hanke, MD](https://assets.radcliffecardiology.com/s3fs-public/author/2020-12/Thorsten%20Hanke.png)
Thorsten Hanke, MD
Associate director of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. He has specialized in treating atrial fibrillation surgically since 2007 and inaugurated a surgical stand-alone LAA treatment program at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Harburg in 2016. He is the Head of the steering committee of the German Surgical ablation registry (CASE-AF), which started in 2016 and which will oversee 400 patients after surgical ablation and LAA treatment.