Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
Clinical implication of disturbed left atrial phasic functions in the heterogeneous population associated with hypertension or atrial fibrillation
... Hypertension and atrial fibrillation (AF) are both associated with left atrial (LA) structural and functional abnormalities. LA enlargement in the patients with hypertension or AF is a common ...
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Atrial Fibrillation and Hyperthyroidism
... Effects of thyroid hormones on ion currents of atrial myocytes contribute to genesis of atrial fibrillation. Hyperthyroidism is associated with shortening of action potential duration (APD) ...
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ACC AHA ESC 2006 Guidelines Atrial fibrillation Circ Journal.pdf
... 6.1.4. Atrial Fibrillation With Associated Heart Disease Specific cardiovascular conditions associated with AF in- clude valvular heart disease (most often, mitral valve dis- ease), HF, CAD, and ...
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Antithrombotic therapy in elderly patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a pilot study
... paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (persistent or permanent) patients were ...paroxysmal atrial fibrillation were less likely to receive OAT ...
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Rivaroxaban in atrial fibrillation
... Rivaroxaban is a particularly attractive alternative because it can be administered once daily. Although there is no study comparing rivaroxaban with dabigatran or apixaban available as yet, rivaroxaban shows good ...
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Evaluation of the vascular protective effects of new oral anticoagulants in high risk patients with atrial fibrillation (PREFER AF): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Accumulating evidence suggests that factor Xa and thrombin are important modulators of other cellular sig- naling mechanisms through the activation of protease- activated receptor (PAR)-mediated signaling. Cross-talk ...
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Measuring the effect of nurse practitioner (NP) led care on health related quality of life in adult patients with atrial fibrillation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the risk of stroke for each patient. To assist with deter- mining risk for increased potential for bleeding, the HAS-BLED score [35] will be calculated. Canadian Car- diovascular Society Severity in Atrial ...
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Catheter Ablation versus Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation in Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (CASA AF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... persistent atrial fibrillation will be randomly allocated to either catheter ablation or thoracoscopic ablation in a 1:1 ...of atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardia ≥ 30 s in ...
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Clinical review: Clinical management of atrial fibrillation – rate control versus rhythm control
... The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study [17] was the largest study to date comparing these two treatment ...
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ACC AHA ESC 2006 Guidelines Atrial fibrillation exec summary JACC.pdf
... In a small, retrospective, population-based study in Olmsted County, Minnesota, over 3 decades, the 15-y cumulative stroke rate in people with lone AF (defined as those younger than 60 y with no clinical history or ...
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Functional Characteristics of Four Novel Lone Atrial Fibrillation-Linked Connexin40 Mutants
... Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heart disease characterized by a fast irregular atrial rhythm different from the normal cardiac rhythm controlled by the SA node (Severs et ...uncoordinated ...
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Atrial fibrillation in a patient with Zika virus infection
... of atrial fibrillation disclosed during an acute Zika virus infection in a 49-year-old ...the Atrial fibrillation patient, in contrast to uninfected ...the atrial fibrillation ...
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Atrial Fibrillation Symptom Clusters
... with atrial fibrillation have previously been identified but not verified with follow-up ...Vanderbilt Atrial Fibrillation Registry with clinically verified paroxysmal, persistent, or ...
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Post operative atrial fibrillation
... f atrial fibrillation follow ing cardiac surgery and the variety o f inflam m atory stim uli associated w ith the surgical undertaking, w e felt that this setting w as one w here the potential im portance o ...
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The mechanisms of atrial fibrillation in hyperthyroidism
... Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a complex condition with several possible contributing ...left atrial pressure secondary to increased left ventricular mass and impaired ventricular relaxation, ischemia ...
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Molecular genetics of atrial fibrillation
... Atrial fibrillation (AF) has an enormous societal impact because of its very high incidence, its potential for devas- tating clinical consequences, the difficulty of its manage- ment and its associated ...
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Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: European perspective
... decades, atrial fibrillation (AF) has become one of the most important public health issues and an important cause of health care expenditure in western ...
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Effect of sinus rhythm restoration on markers of thrombin generation in atrial fibrillation
... 27. Hunter RJ, McCready J, Diab I, Page SP, Finlay M, Richmond L, French A, Earley MJ, Sporton S, Jones M, Joseph JP, Bashir Y, Betts TR, Thomas G, Staniforth A, Lee G, Kistler P, Rajappan K, Chow A, Schilling RJ. ...
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Cardiac Inter Beat Interval and Atrial Fibrillation Detection using Video Plethysmography
... and atrial fibrillation cohort). The atrial fibrillation diagnose was then obtained based on the comparison of the value to its corresponding threshold, where it would be said that a given ...
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Clinical and Etiological Profile of Patients Presenting with Atrial Fibrillation – A Hospital Based Study
... Waldo AL NABOR study (National Anticoagulation Benchmark Outcomes Report) study) et al studied hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation and confirmed the under-use of warfarin, but also adds to ...
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