Left atrial longitudinal strain by speckle tracking as independent predictor of recurrence after electrical cardioversion in persistent and long standing persistent non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in humans. After successful cardioversion, there is a recurrence of 60% due to atrial remodeling, and it has been shown that the global peak atrial longitudinal strain (GPALS) is decreased in these subjects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of GPALS for AF recurrence.

[The evaluation and treatment of a patient with atrial fibrillation].

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in humans. The treatment can be one of the most difficult. It's true that AF itself it's a no-lethal arrhythmia but is often a cause of symptoms that can lead the patient to worsening in his quality of life thet predispose to serious conditions like thromboembolic events and heart failure.

[The clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation. Medical reflections from the daily practice].

Atrial fibrillation (AF) represents a global public health problem. The implementation of a clinical practice guideline is essential to standardize the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of this rhythm disturbance. However, due to the wide clinical spectrum which is associated with AF, it makes difficult to standardize the recommendations and cause that are not always appropriate interpretations of the same setting, so there will be some clinical reflections of the recommendations in the clinical practice guidelines published in this journal, to assist the medical not specialist to put them in everyday clinical setting.