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Gerhard Hindricks

Gerhard Hindricks

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178144
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Overview

Gerhard Hindricks is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a strong focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research portfolio contains 468 publications, with 392 of these specifically related to cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary areas of study covered in their work include:

  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management

The scientist's extensive publication record features numerous papers in leading journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), 2024, European Heart Journal
  • Corrigendum to: 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS): The Task Force for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Developed with the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Pulsed Field Ablation for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: PULSED AF Pivotal Trial, 2023, Circulation
  • 2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation, 2024, EP Europace

Frequent publication venues include:

  • EP Europace
  • Heart Rhythm
  • European Heart Journal
  • Herz
  • Circulation

Hindricks collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, notably:

  • Nikolaos Dagres
  • Andreas Bollmann
  • Borislav Dinov
  • Arash Arya
  • Alireza Sepehri Shamloo

The overall research encompasses clinical and procedural aspects of cardiac arrhythmias, including diagnosis, management, and treatment techniques such as catheter and surgical ablation. Hindricks' work touches several subfields within medicine: surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A. Voors;Stefan D. Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

    Paulus Kirchhof;Stefano Benussi;Dipak Kotecha;Anders Ahlsson

  • 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Borja Ibanez;Stefan James;Stefan Agewall;Manuel J Antunes

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

    Paulus Kirchhof;Stefano Benussi;Dipak Kotecha;Anders Ahlsson

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

    Gerhard Hindricks;Tatjana Potpara;Nikolaos Dagres;Elena Arbelo

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS: The Task Force for the management of atrial fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC. Endorsed by the European Stroke Organisation (ESO)

    Kirchhof P;Benussi S;Kotecha D;Ahlsson A

  • Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation The Task Force for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    A. John Camm;Paulus Kirchhof;Irene Savelieva

  • 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular riskThe Task Force for the management of dyslipidaemias of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS)

    François Mach;Colin Baigent;Alberico L Catapano;Konstantinos C Koskinas

  • 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

    Hugh Calkins;Karl Heinz Kuck;Riccardo Cappato;Josep Brugada

  • 2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation: An update of the 2010 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation * Developed with the special contribution of the European Heart Rhythm Association

    A. John Camm;Jeroen J. Bax;Robert Fagard

  • 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

    Hugh Calkins;Karl Heinz Kuck;Riccardo Cappato;Josep Brugada

  • 2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

    A. John Camm;Gregory Y.H. Lip

  • 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk

    A Halliday;C Baigent;F Mach;B Mihaylova;B Mihaylova

  • 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS: The Task Force for dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).

    Marco Valgimigli;Héctor Bueno;Robert A Byrne;Jean-Philippe Collet

  • 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: The Task Force for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).

    Silvia G. Priori;Carina Blomström-Lundqvist

  • Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

    A. John Camm;Paulus Kirchhof;Gregory Y H Lip;Ulrich Schotten

  • Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Paulus Kirchhof;A. John Camm;Andreas Goette;Axel Brandes

  • Association of Atrial Tissue Fibrosis Identified by Delayed Enhancement MRI and Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation The DECAAF Study

    Nassir F. Marrouche;David Wilber;Gerhard Hindricks;Pierre Jais

  • Effect of Catheter Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy on Mortality, Stroke, Bleeding, and Cardiac Arrest Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The CABANA Randomized Clinical Trial

    Douglas L. Packer;Daniel B. Mark;Richard A. Robb;Kristi H. Monahan

  • EHRA/HRS Expert Consensus on Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: developed in a partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a Registered Branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS); in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA).

    Etienne M. Aliot;William G. Stevenson;Jesus Ma Almendral-Garrote;Frank Bogun

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Y.H. Lip
Gregory Y.H. Lip University of Liverpool
Paulus Kirchhof
Paulus Kirchhof University of Birmingham
Karl-Heinz Kuck
Karl-Heinz Kuck Universität Hamburg
A. John Camm
A. John Camm St George's, University of London
Hein Heidbuchel
Hein Heidbuchel University of Antwerp
Isabelle C. Van Gelder
Isabelle C. Van Gelder University Medical Center Groningen
Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
Jens Cosedis Nielsen
Jens Cosedis Nielsen Aarhus University Hospital
Pierre Jaïs
Pierre Jaïs University of Bordeaux
Dan Atar
Dan Atar University of Oslo

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