Bordeaux contacts My contact details for Bordeaux are out of date. Please can someone give me the name, email address and phone number of Prof. Jaïs's secretary? Gill https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180373#msg-180373 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:59:19 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180545#msg-180545 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180545#msg-180545
I'm guessing the top EP's agree with this.

The people I know personally who've had their LAA isolated (in all cases by Natale) are happy with the result and don't seem to have materially reduced function. Their status, as Carey notes for himself, is significantly better after the procedure than before.]]> GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Wed, 05 May 2021 02:08:38 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180544#msg-180544 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180544#msg-180544
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I would be very interested to read the article if anyone can find a link.

Gill

He wasn’t specific. Just an interest of the article I had recalled about Jais mentioning destroying good heart tissue.]]> susan.d AFIBBERS FORUM Wed, 05 May 2021 01:45:29 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180543#msg-180543 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180543#msg-180543 ablating the LAA in that article; he was talking about preemptively closing it or removing it during surgery. For many years it's been common practice for heart surgeons to suture the LAA closed or even remove it during open heart surgery. It's also common as a part of Maze procedures, usually by using a closure device like the AtriClip or LARIAT. It's one of those "The patient might not actually need it, but as long as we're in there" kind of things. So he's questioning that practice and voicing some common sense thinking about not destroying more tissue than actually needed to fix the AF. Whether he's right or not remains to be seen, but I don't think the data lean in his favor at this point.

But snipping off or closing the LAA is very different from simply electrically isolating it via ablation. For example, my LAA was isolated in my 2017 ablation because it was the source of my 250 bpm flutter. Easy choice. He could either isolate it and stop my flutter with a few burns or leave me with intractable flutter that could only be stopped with an AV node ablation and dependence on a pacemaker for life. So he did just enough burns outside the opening of the LAA to block the errant impulses coming from it. My LAA continued to function afterwards, but at a marginally reduced pumping ability. I noticed absolutely no reduction in exercise tolerance after that procedure. (HA HA! Trust me, anything improves exercise tolerance compared to a heart rate of 250.)

As for the ANP issue, that's of no real concern because the RAA (right side appendage) takes over and produces all the ANP you need.]]> Carey AFIBBERS FORUM Wed, 05 May 2021 01:06:45 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180539#msg-180539 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180539#msg-180539 [a-fib.com]

Functions of the Left Atrial Appendage
Some question the need or benefit of removing the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) if someone is no longer in A-Fib. For a patient made A-Fib free, would their heart function better or more normally if they still had their LAA? In the words of Dr. Pierre Jais of the Bordeaux Group at the 2020 AF Symposium, “We have ablated too much…Those patients when they have the (Left Atrial) Appendage taken out, they have very poor residual LA (Left Atrium) function. I don’t want that to happen anymore. If we can avoid it, I think we should.” Dr. Jais later added, “Sinus rhythm is by definition superior to persistent A-Fib. But the best ablation strategy is the one that restores sinus rhythm at the least tissue cost, thereby preserving as much as possible the LA function.”]]> susan.d AFIBBERS FORUM Tue, 04 May 2021 20:58:40 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180519#msg-180519 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180519#msg-180519
Gill]]> Gill AFIBBERS FORUM Mon, 03 May 2021 22:12:01 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180509#msg-180509 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180509#msg-180509 susan.d AFIBBERS FORUM Mon, 03 May 2021 00:50:42 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180391#msg-180391 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180391#msg-180391
[www.ihu-liryc.fr]]]> GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:48:13 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180380#msg-180380 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180380#msg-180380 GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:21:46 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180377#msg-180377 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180377#msg-180377
Gill]]> Gill AFIBBERS FORUM Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:56:12 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180374#msg-180374 Re: Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180374#msg-180374
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My contact details for Bordeaux are out of date. Please can someone give me the name, email address and phone number of Prof. Jaïs's secretary?

Gill
I suggest people do this via PM.

If you don't get a response, send PM me your email and I'll connect you with Mike F via email. I'm pretty sure he has current contact info.]]> GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:36:54 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180373#msg-180373 Bordeaux contacts https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,180373,180373#msg-180373
Gill]]> Gill AFIBBERS FORUM Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:34:39 +0000