ALLMedicine™ Atrial Fibrillation Center

Apr 21st, 2021 - Background American Indian adults have a higher risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with other racial groups. We implemented opportunistic screening to detect silent AF in American Indian adults attending a tribal health system using a mobil...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Weight loss in morbidly obese patients reduces atrial fibrillation (AF); however, it is unknown whether similar benefits are maintained in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We sought to determine whether incident AF and stroke rates are...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is relatively common among nursing home residents, and decisions regarding anticoagulant therapy in this setting may be complicated by resident frailty and other factors. The aim of this study was to examine trends and cor...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Multiple embolic events and ruption of the central venous catheter in a patient with atrial fibrillation.|2021|Ostrowski T,Semczuk-Kaczmarek K,Maciąg R,Płatek AE,Gałązka Z,|

Apr 21st, 2021 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical arrhythmia and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical practice. This study aims to determine the ranolazine for prevention and treatment of atrial fibrillation. This study adheres ...

Apr 19th, 2021 - AF is the most common arrhythmia. The prevalence of AF increases with age, from less than 0.2% in adults younger than age 55 years to about 10% in those age 85 years or older, with a higher prevalence in men than in women.1 AF is a major risk fact...

Dec 11th, 2020 - 2020 Update to the 2016 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures.|2020|Hei...

Nov 30th, 2020 - 2020 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Venous Thromboembolism Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Re...

Nov 16th, 2020 - The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines program was developed to aid clinicians in the management of these complex patients, as well as to provide direction to policy makers and health care systems regarding r...

May 10th, 2020 - Rationale, considerations, and goals for atrial fibrillation centers of excellence: A Heart Rhythm Society perspective.|2020|Piccini JP,Allred J,Bunch TJ,Deering TF,Di Biase L,|

Apr 21st, 2021 - Background American Indian adults have a higher risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) compared with other racial groups. We implemented opportunistic screening to detect silent AF in American Indian adults attending a tribal health system using a mobil...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Weight loss in morbidly obese patients reduces atrial fibrillation (AF); however, it is unknown whether similar benefits are maintained in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We sought to determine whether incident AF and stroke rates are...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is relatively common among nursing home residents, and decisions regarding anticoagulant therapy in this setting may be complicated by resident frailty and other factors. The aim of this study was to examine trends and cor...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Multiple embolic events and ruption of the central venous catheter in a patient with atrial fibrillation.|2021|Ostrowski T,Semczuk-Kaczmarek K,Maciąg R,Płatek AE,Gałązka Z,|

Apr 21st, 2021 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common clinical arrhythmia and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical practice. This study aims to determine the ranolazine for prevention and treatment of atrial fibrillation. This study adheres ...

Apr 19th, 2021 - AF is the most common arrhythmia. The prevalence of AF increases with age, from less than 0.2% in adults younger than age 55 years to about 10% in those age 85 years or older, with a higher prevalence in men than in women.1 AF is a major risk fact...

Apr 18th, 2021 - A randomized comparison of two ablation catheter designs in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) may say less about the choice of equipment than the potential, including potential limits, of the ablation approach used by both: pulmona...

Apr 8th, 2021 - Maintaining oral anticoagulation (OAC) throughout an unplanned cardiac catheterization confers no extra risk and might hold some advantages over periprocedural OAC interruption in patients on long-term anticoagulation therapy, suggests a major reg...

Mar 23rd, 2021 - Among patients who have recently experienced an ischemic stroke thought to be caused by small-vessel occlusion or large-vessel atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation (AF) is detected more often with an insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) than with stan...

Mar 18th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A more accurate estimate of the stroke risk in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection has come from a large American Heart Association regi...