Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
Digoxin versus placebo, no intervention, or other medical interventions for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: a protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis
... with atrial fibrillation—on the other hand, digoxin is a recommended and commonly used ...with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter exists—still, we can identify several trials ...
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Clinical Heart Failure Patients with Ischemic Stroke Have a High Incidence (>60%) of Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter Whether Systolic Function Is Preserved or Depressed
... Clinical congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major risk factor for strokes. Patients with CHF com- monly have atrial fibrillation or flutter (AF), which is frequently associated with, may be a marker ...
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DC cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter in the emergency department: improving specialist protocols for the generalist
... recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter and when performed in the emergency department (ED), it can provide an excellent treatment option for patients as well as reducing unnecessary ...
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Troponin utilization in patients presenting with atrial fibrillation/flutter to the emergency department: retrospective chart review
... Our study identified that a high percentage of patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter is kept in the emergency department for troponin testing. Eighty-six percent of patients had at least one set ...
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Atrial fibrillation and its determinants after radiofrequency ablation of chronic common atrial flutter
... Aim. Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a major clinical issue and its occurrence is the main problem after catheter ablation of atrial ...common atrial flutter ablation is still matter of ...
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Dronedarone for the treatment of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter: approval and efficacy
... double-blind, parallel arm Trial to assess the efficacy of drone- darone 400 mg twice daily for the prevention of cardiovascu- lar Hospitalization or death from any cause in patiENts with Atrial ...
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Stroke with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter: a descriptive population-based study from the Brest stroke registry
... of atrial arrhythmia (AA) (atrial fibrillation/flutter) and the impact of implementation of prevention guidelines on CHADS2 scores in a stroke ...
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Impact of dronedarone in atrial fibrillation and flutter on stroke reduction
... Dronedarone has been developed by Sanofi-Aventis for treatment of AF or atrial flutter (AFL). Dronedarone is a benzofuran derivative and primarily a class III antiarrhythmic drug but with properties from ...
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Emergency department presentations for atrial fibrillation and flutter in Alberta: a large population-based study
... of atrial fibrillation cases [9] from 2002 to 2010 showed an increase in the crude rate of ED presentations for patients aged 18 to 105 years, whereas our crude rates remained relatively stable and even ...
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Temporal Stability of the Location of the Esophagus in Patients Undergoing a Repeat Left Atrial Ablation Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter
... The PV ostia were identified as described above. Atyp- ical atrial flutter was mapped with activation mapping us- ing an electroanatomic mapping system (CARTO; Biosense- Webster) and entrainment mapping. ...
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Electrophysiological Mechanisms of Atrial Flutter
... atrial flutter cycle length was 140 to 150 ms. During atrial flutter the earliest atrial activation relative to F wave onset was noted in the right atrium and the reentrant wave front ...
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Atrial Overdrive Pacing for Conversion of Atrial Flutter in Children
... sustained atrial fibrillation or local areas of unrec- ognized atrial fibrillation, both resistant to conver- sion by pacing techniques.2 Although patients 3 and 8 manifested transient a[r] ...
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Risk Factors for Starr Edwards Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction: New Insights into an Old Prosthesis
... were atrial fibrillation, mitral position, coronary artery disease, INR < ...years, atrial flutter, diabetes mellitus, left ventricular ejection fraction < 40% and systemic ...
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Managing atrial fibrillation in the elderly: critical appraisal of dronedarone
... Thirty-two percent of patients in the dronedarone arm and 39% in the placebo arm reached the primary endpoint. Dronedarone reduced the first cardiovascular hospitalization by 26% when compared with placebo (P , 0.001). ...
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Non-Cardiac Surgery in a Paediatric Patient with Permanent Pacemaker – Anaesthetic Implications
... In this patient pacemaker initially was pacing in VVI mode [2] which is the most widely used form of pacing in which ventricle is sensed and paced. It senses the intrinsic R wave and thus inhibits the pacemaker function. ...
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Atrial Fibrillation and Hyperthyroidism
... had atrial fibrillation or flutter within 30 days from the date of ...for atrial fibrillation in patients with hyperthyroidism were similar to those in general population like age, male ...
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Functional Characteristics of Four Novel Lone Atrial Fibrillation-Linked Connexin40 Mutants
... in atrial cardiomyocytes remains unclear, as there are conflicting results regarding the ability of Cx40 and Cx43 to form functional heterotypic GJ channels (Bruzzone et ...
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Management of atrial fibrillation
... Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently encountered and sustained cardiac ar- rhythmia in clinical practice, with an overall population prevalence of 0.65% in the United Kingdom (Stewart et al 2001). The ...
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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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Catheter Ablation versus Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation in Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (CASA AF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Catheter AF ablation (usual care treatment) TOE will exclude LA thrombus under general anaesthesia and guide trans-septal puncture. Patients will be heparinised to maintain an activated clotting time (ACT) between 300 ...
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