Catheter ablation as a class I recommendation therapy for symptomatic, drug-resistant, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

by Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2012-04-01

Celebrating a launch of new scientific society

by Ken Okumura, M.D., Ph.D.
Published 2015-06-01

Left atrial thrombus formation and resolution during dabigatran therapy: A Japanese Heart Rhythm Society report

by Hideo Mitamura, MD, Takayuki Nagai, MD, Atsuyuki Watanabe, MD, Seiji Takatsuki, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2015-08-01

Rhythm and rate control effects of intravenous amiodarone for atrial fibrillation complicated by acutely decompensated heart failure

by Daisuke Horiuchi, MD, Shingo Sasaki, MD, Takahiko Kinjo, MD, Yuji Ishida, MD, Taihei Itoh, MD, Kenichi Sasaki, MD, Shingen Owada, MD, Masaomi Kimura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2014-06-01

Efficacy of Long-term Flecainide Therapy in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation —Analysis Based on Time of Onset—

by Takashi Komatsu, MD, Yoshihiro Satou, MD, Hideaki Tachibana, MD, Motoyuki Nakamura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD, Shin Nakamura, MD, Osamu Suzuki, MD, Daisuke Horiuchi, MD, Kunihiko Yomogida, MD
Published 2006-01-01

Clinical features and predictors of lethal ventricular tachyarrhythmias after cardiac resynchronization therapy for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death

by Yuji Ishida, MD, Shingo Sasaki, MD, Takahiko Kinjo, MD, Taihei Itoh, MD, Kenichi Sasaki, MD, Daisuke Horiuchi, MD, Shingen Owada, MD, Masaomi Kimura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2014-10-01

Long-term Efficacy of Combination Therapy with Anti-arrhythmic Agents and Pravastatin in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

by Takashi Komatsu, MD, Hideaki Tachibana, MD, Yoshihiro Sato, MD, Mahito Ozawa, MD, Kyoko Ohshima, MD, Motoyuki Nakamura, MD, Daisuke Horiuchi, MD, Takao Kobayashi, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2007-01-01

Nationwide survey of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: The Japanese catheter ablation registry of atrial fibrillation (J-CARAF)–A report on periprocedural oral anticoagula...

by Yuji Murakawa, MD, Akihiko Nogami, MD, Morio Shoda, MD, Koichi Inoue, MD, Shigeto Naito, MD, Koichiro Kumagai, MD, Yasushi Miyauchi, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Norishige Morita, MD, Hideo Mitamura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2015-02-01

Nationwide survey of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: The Japanese Catheter Ablation Registry of Atrial Fibrillation (J-CARAF) – Report on antiarrhythmic drug therapy

by Yuji Murakawa, MD, Akihiko Nogami, MD, Morio Shoda, MD, Koichi Inoue, MD, Shigeto Naito, MD, Koichiro Kumagai, MD, Yasushi Miyauchi, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Norishige Morita, MD, Hideo Mitamura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2014-10-01

Prognostic impact of atrial fibrillation in patients with acute myocardial infarction

by Shunta Tateyama, MD, Takumi Higuma, MD, Tomohide Endo, MD, Shuji Shibutani, MD, Kenji Hanada, MD, Hiroaki Yokoyama, MD, Masahiro Yamada, MD, Naoki Abe, MD, Shingo Sasaki, MD, Masaomi Kimura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD
Published 2014-12-01

Report of periprocedural oral anticoagulants in catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: The Japanese Catheter Ablation Registry of Atrial Fibrillation (J-CARAF)

by Yuji Murakawa, MD, Akihiko Nogami, MD, Morio Shoda, MD, Koichi Inoue, MD, Shigeto Naito, MD, Koichiro Kumagai, MD, Yasushi Miyauchi, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, Norishige Morita, MD, Hideo Mitamura, MD, Ken Okumura, MD, Kenzo Hirao, MD
Published 2017-06-01

Usefulness of combined CARTO electroanatomical mapping and manifest entrainment in ablating adenosine triphosphate-sensitive atrial tachycardia originating from the atrioventricula...

by Ken Okumura, M.D., Shingo Sasaki, M.D., Masaomi Kimura, M.D., Daisuke Horiuchi, M.D., Kenichi Sasaki, M.D., Taihei Itoh, M.D., Hirofumi Tomita, M.D., Yuji Ishida, M.D., Takahiko Kinjo, M.D.
Published 2016-04-01

2017 consensus of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society on stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation

by Chern-En Chiang, MD, PhD, Ken Okumura, MD, PhD, Shu Zhang, MD, Tze-Fan Chao, MD, PhD, Chung-Wah Siu, MD, Toon Wei Lim, MD, Anil Saxena, MD, Yoshihide Takahashi, MD, Wee Siong Teo, MD
Published 2017-08-01

Erratum to ‘2015 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator programming and testing’ [Journal of Arrhythmia 32/1 (2016) 1–28...

by Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS, Laurent Fauchier, MD, PhD, Martin K. Stiles, MBCHB, PhD, Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FRCPC, FHRS, Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD, MHSc, FHRS, CCDS, Jesœs Almendral, MD, PhD, FESC, Luis Aguinaga, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC, Ronald D. Berger, MD, PhD, FHRS, Alejandro Cuesta, MD, PhD, FESC, James P. Daubert, MD, FHRS, Sergio Dubner, MD, FACC, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS, N.A. Mark Estes, III, MD, Guilherme Fenelon, Fermin C. Garcia, MD, Maurizio Gasparini, MD, David E. Haines, MD, FHRS, Jeff S. Healey, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FHRS, Jodie L. Hurtwitz, MD, Roberto Keegan, MD, Christof Kolb, MD, Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, FHRS, Germanas Marinskis, MD, FESC, Martino Martinelli, MD, PhD, Mark McGuire, MBBS, PhD, Luis G. Molina, MD, DSc, Ken Okumura, MD, PhD, Alessandro Proclemer, MD, Andrea M. Russo, MD, FHRS, Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, DPhil, FHRS, Charles D. Swerdlow, MD, FHRS, Wee Siong Teo, MBBS, FHRS, William Uribe, MD, FHRS, Sami Viskin, MD, Chun-Chieh Wang, MD, Shu Zhang, MD
Published 2016-10-01

2015 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator programming and testing

by Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS, Laurent Fauchier, MD, PhD, Martin K. Stiles, MBCHB, PhD, Carlos A. Morillo, MD, FRCPC, FHRS, Sana M. Al-Khatib, MD, MHSc, FHRS, CCDS, Jesœs Almendral, MD, PhD, FESC, Luis Aguinaga, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC, Ronald D. Berger, MD, PhD, FHRS, Alejandro Cuesta, MD, PhD, FESC, James P. Daubert, MD, FHRS, Sergio Dubner, MD, FACC, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FHRS, N.A. Mark Estes, III, MD, Guilherme Fenelon, MD, PhD, Fermin C. Garcia, MD, Maurizio Gasparini, MD, David E. Haines, MD, FHRS, Jeff S. Healey, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FHRS, Jodie L. Hurtwitz, MD, Roberto Keegan, MD, Christof Kolb, MD, Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, FHRS, Germanas Marinskis, MD, FESC, Martino Martinelli, MD, PhD, Mark McGuire, MBBS, PhD, Luis G. Molina, MD, DSc, Ken Okumura, MD, PhD, Alessandro Proclemer, MD, Andrea M. Russo, MD, FHRS, Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, DPhil, FHRS, Charles D. Swerdlow, MD, FHRS, Wee Siong Teo, MBBS, FHRS, William Uribe, MD, FHRS, Sami Viskin, MD, Chun-Chieh Wang, MD, Shu Zhang, MD
Published 2016-02-01

2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: Executive summary

by Hugh Calkins, MD, Gerhard Hindricks, MD, Riccardo Cappato, MD, Young-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Eduardo B. Saad, MD, PhD, Luis Aguinaga, MD, PhD, Joseph G. Akar, MD, PhD, Vinay Badhwar, MD, Josep Brugada, MD, PhD, John Camm, MD, Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, Shih-Ann Chen, MD, Mina K. Chung, MD, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, DMSc, PhD, Anne B. Curtis, MD, D. Wyn Davies, MD, John D. Day, MD, André d’Avila, MD, PhD, N.M.S. (Natasja) de Groot, MD, PhD, Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, Mattias Duytschaever, MD, PhD, James R. Edgerton, MD, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD, Sabine Ernst, MD, PhD, Guilherme Fenelon, MD, PhD, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MS, MD, David E. Haines, MD, Michel Haissaguerre, MD, Robert H. Helm, MD, Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH, Warren M. Jackman, MD, Jose Jalife, MD, Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, PhD, Josef Kautzner, MD, PhD, Hans Kottkamp, MD, Karl Heinz Kuck, MD, PhD, Koichiro Kumagai, MD, PhD, Richard Lee, MD, MBA, Thorsten Lewalter, MD, PhD, Bruce D. Lindsay, MD, Laurent Macle, MD, Moussa Mansour, MD, Francis E. Marchlinski, MD, Gregory F. Michaud, MD, Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD, Andrea Natale, MD, Stanley Nattel, MD, Ken Okumura, MD, PhD, Douglas Packer, MD, Evgeny Pokushalov, MD, PhD, Matthew R. Reynolds, MD, MSc, Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD, Mauricio Scanavacca, MD, PhD, Richard Schilling, MD, Claudio Tondo, MD, PhD, Hsuan-Ming Tsao, MD, Atul Verma, MD, David J. Wilber, MD, Teiichi Yamane, MD, PhD
Published 2017-10-01