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AF Symposium 25: Highlights with Dr Ronghua Yang
Published: 22 Jan 2025
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AF Symposium 25 - In this video, Dr Ronghua Yang (Montefiore Einstein, NY, US) offers her hopes for the future of electrophysiology and discusses how the outcomes from AF Symposium 25 have identified areas which need further research.
Questions:
1. What advances are you excited about in the field of electrophysiology?
2. What challenges need to be addressed next?
3. What would your advice be to cardiologists interested in EP?
Recorded onsite at AF Symposium, Boston, 2025.
Support: This is an independent interview produced by Arrhythmia Academy.
So I'm Ronghua Yang - I go by Ronnie, as most people know me - and I'm a current second-year EP fellow at Montefiore Einstein in the Bronx, New York.
What advances are you excited about in the field of electrophysiology?
First AFib Symposium that I went to was when I was a second or third-year general fellow going into electrophysiology. And at that time, I think what was really exciting, everybody talked about PFA which is now here.
And you know, I think a part that's exciting about EP is the constant technological advances that are allowing us to change our practice for the better for the patients. And I think you see that throughout the years, even just over the past few years, we, you know, went from mostly RF to now doing a lot of PFA, and being able to do concomitant procedures, and being able to see how fast we're able to do the ablations now for the heart failure patients. I think that's all a plus.
What challenges need to be addressed next?
I think first day was a shock with a lot of the new atrial appendage occlusion devices. But I think that's still what we're a lot of times ultimately trying to prevent people from having strokes. So I think that's going to be an important area in terms of what's coming up and what needs to still be developed in that arena.
The second is there's so many new PFA technologies coming out and how to best select and how to best practice that in terms of do you do for [indistinct] and how various countries practice it differently. I think one thing I didn't realize coming in, you know, someone mentioned that in Canada it's 200 days till they can schedule an ablation, which is quite in awe to hear. But I think, you know, how do we make things more efficient as a system is something that's going to be a challenge down the road as well.
What would your advice be to cardiologists interested in EP?
I would encourage all cardiologists and fellows who are interested in EP to come to the meetings, I think, for them to see the changes that are happening. I've been here for the past three, four years and I've seen the changes throughout my training, and I think there's going to be many to come.
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