Short-term progress of patients with self-limited first episode atrial fibrillation.

Clear guidelines are lacking for the management of the clinical pattern of first-episode type atrial fibrillation (AF). We retrospectively analysed the clinical evolution of patients with self-limited first episode AF identified from among from 200 patients who had been hospitalised in our cardiology ward with AF. Of the 200 patients, 33 (16.

[Patterns of clinical presentation of atrial fibrillation in hospitalized patients].

Introduction And Objectives: The ACC/AHA/ESC 2001 guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) establish 4 categories: first episode, paroxysmal, persistent and permanent. The aim of this study was to analyze the frequency of the different clinical patterns of presentation of AF in hospitalized patients.

Patients And Method: We analyzed the pattern of AF in 300 hospitalized patients, 200 of whom were admitted to the cardiology and 100 to the internal medicine department.