Accompanying the aging of populations worldwide, and increased survival with chronic
diseases, the incidence and prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) are rising, justifying the term …

Cardiac embolism accounts for an increasing proportion of ischemic strokes and might
multiply several-fold during the next decades. However, research points to several potential …

Background Device-detected atrial high-rate episodes (AHREs) are atrial arrhythmias
detected by implanted cardiac devices. AHREs resemble atrial fibrillation but are rare and …

Abstract The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines
program was developed to aid clinicians in the management of these complex patients, as …

Komisję ESC ds. Wytycznych Postępowania nadzoruje i koordynuje przygotowywanie
nowych wytycznych i stanowisk przez grupy robocze i inne grupy ekspertów. Komitet jest …

The Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) published the “Guidelines for Pharmacological
Treatment of Arrhythmia” in 2004, and a revised edition was published in 2009. 1 Both …

Importance Opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) is recommended, and improved
methods of early identification could allow for the initiation of appropriate therapies to …

Background ASSERT demonstrated that subclinical atrial fibrillation (SCAF) is common in
pacemaker patients without prior AF and is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke …

Our understanding of the risk factors and complications of atrial fibrillation (AF) is based
mostly on studies that have evaluated AF in a binary fashion (present or absent) and have …

896 Stroke March 2016 risk. However, in a meta-analysis of 8 randomized clinical trials, a
rhythm-control strategy had no effect on stroke risk (odds ratio, 0.99; 95% confidence …