The 2024 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines, developed with EACTS - European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, have been released! Updates include:

Concomitant surgical AF ablation has been upgraded to:
- Class I for patients undergoing mitral valve surgery
- Class IIa for patients undergoing non-mitral valve surgery

LAA Exclusion has been upgraded to:
- Class I for concomitant AF ablation surgeries
- Class IIa for concomitant endoscopic or hybrid AF ablation

Hybrid AF ablation has been upgraded to a class II consideration

Discover the full guidelines at: <a href="https://okt.to/1aXKst&quot; target="_blank">https://okt.to/1aXKst</a&gt;
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