A 70-year-old man comes to the clinic for routine follow-up of hypertension and is found to have new atrial fibrillation of unknown duration. Atrial fibrillation increases the risk of mortality and ...
Recent-onset atrial fibrillation, defined as an onset within one week, is a major issue in clinical practice, and recent advances have shown that cardioversion to normal sinus rhythm provides better ...
Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation in adult patients admitted to an intensive care unitJournal: Annals of ...
However, it is in the approach to anticoagulation of AF in which the divergence from the conventional thrombotic ...
A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...
A multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial confirms that both chemical-first and electrical-first approaches are effective strategies for acute atrial fibrillation; however, an ...
LISBON, Portugal—Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with new, symptomatic A-fib do not necessarily need to undergo immediate cardioversion, as is now common practice, the RACE 7 ...
Background: Several clinical factors have been studied to predict atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence after electrical cardioversion (ECV) with limited predictive value. Methods: A method able to ...
Newswise — A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients ...