Left Atrial Appendage Closure or Medical Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation

Ulf Landmesser

Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin

Carsten Skurk

Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin

Paulus Kirchhof

Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Lewalter

Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Munich South, Peter Osypka Heart Center, Munich, Germany

Johannes Hartung

Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin

Andi Rroku

Department of Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin

Burkert Pieske

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Johannes Brachmann

Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Coburg, Coburg, Germany

Ibrahim Akin

Department of Cardiology, Hemostaseology, and Medical Intensive Care, University Medical Center Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Claudius Jacobshagen

Department of Cardiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Angiology, Vincentius-Diakonissen Hospital, Karlsruhe, Germany

Benjamin Meder

Precision Digital Health, Department of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Andreas Zeiher

Department of Medicine III, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Stefan D. Anker

Department of Cardiology of the German Heart Center Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin

Holger Thiele

Department of Internal Medicine–Cardiology, Heart Center at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Blankenberg

Steffen Massberg

Heribert Schunkert

DZHK Partner Site Munich, Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

Norbert Frey

Alexander Joost

DZHK Partner Site Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Bergmann

Department of Cardiology, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Hamburg, Germany

Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben

Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Tim Friede

German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Lower Saxony, Göttingen, Germany

Marius Placzek

German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Lower Saxony, Göttingen, Germany

Anna Suling

Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Karl Georg Haeusler

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Matthias Endres

German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Partner Site Berlin, Berlin

Karl Wegscheider

DZHK Partner Site Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

Leif-Hendrik Boldt

German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Partner Site Berlin, Berlin

Ingo Eitel

DZHK, partner site North, Lübeck, Germany