Paulus Kirchhof

Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Muenster, Germany

Paulus Kirchhof is Attending Physician in the Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hospital of the University of Münster. He is Associate Professor of Medicine within the Medical Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
In 2004, he won the  Woldemar-Mobitz Award of the German Society of Cardiology and, in 2006, he received the Bruno Kisch Prize of the German Cardiac Society (DGK). He is a Member of the German Society of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society, and the German Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He is Editorial Board Member of Heart Rhythm and Europace and Editorial Consultant to the Lancet. He is also a Member of the European North-Atlantic Atrial Fibrillation Research Alliance (ENAFRA), the Collaborative Research Center “Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging”, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) Münster.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Cardiovascular Disorders > Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology & Pacing (since 05 June 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Feasibility of Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Catheter Guidance in Electrophysiology Studies.
  Recommended by Paulus Kirchhof
  
• 3.0
  Non-invasive diagnosis of ischaemic heart failure using 64-slice computed tomography.
  Recommended by Christopher Kramer
  Dissent by Paulus Kirchhof
• 6.0
  Intensive oral antiplatelet therapy for reduction of ischaemic events including stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndromes treated with percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting in the TRITON-TIMI 38 trial: a subanalysis of a randomised trial.
  Recommended by Paulus Kirchhof
  
• 6.4
  Catheter ablation for the treatment of electrical storm in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: short- and long-term outcomes in a prospective single-center study.
  Recommended by Paulus Kirchhof, Jesus Almendral
  
• 6.0
  Engraftment of connexin 43-expressing cells prevents post-infarct arrhythmia.
  Recommended by Paulus Kirchhof
  
• 8.4
  Cardiopulmonary resuscitation by bystanders with chest compression only (SOS-KANTO): an observational study.
  Recommended by Raúl J Gazmuri, John Laffey, Paulus Kirchhof, Patrick Ray
  
• 6.8
  Effect of remote ischaemic preconditioning on myocardial injury in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a randomised controlled trial.
  Recommended by Michael Avidan, Greg McAnulty, Paulus Kirchhof, John Laffey with Dr James Jarman, Benedikt Pannen