ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines and Policy Conferences (Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) <i>Developed in Collaboration With the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology</i>

Fuster, Valentı́n; Rydén, Lars; Asinger, Richard; S. Cannom, David; J.G.M. Crijns, Harry; L. Frye, Robert; L. Halperin, Jonathan; Neal Kay, G.; Klein, Werner; Lévy, Samuel; L. McNamara, Robert; N. Prystowsky, Eric; Samüel Wann, L.; George Wyse, D.; J. Gibbons, Raymond; M. Antman, Elliott; S. Alpert, Joseph; P. Faxon, David; Fuster, Valentı́n; Gregoratos, Gabriel; F. Hiratzka, Loren; K. Jacobs, Alice; O. Russell, Richard; C. Smith, Sidney; Klein, Werner; Alonso-García, Ángeles; Blomström‐Lundqvist, Carina; De Backer, Guy; Flather, Marcus; Hradec, J; Oto, Ali; Parkhomenko, Alexander; Silber, Sigmund; Torbicki, Adam

doi:10.1161/circ.104.17.2118

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ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines and Policy Conferences (Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) <i>Developed in Collaboration With the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology</i>

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Valentı́n Fuster

Lars Rydén

Richard Asinger

Abstract

IntroductionAtrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac rhythm disturbance, is increasing in prevalence as the popu-lation ages.Although it is often associated with heart disease, AF occurs in many patients with no detectable disease.Hemodynamic impairment and thromboembolic events r...

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Medicine

Atrial fibrillation

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