Publications by authors named "Piotr Achremczyk"
Background: It is difficult to define the optimal management of elderly heart failure (HF) patients with complex comorbidities. Thus, comprehensive characterisation of HF patients constitutes a crucial pre-condition for the successful management of this fragile population.
Aim: To analyse the 'real life' HF patients, including the evaluation of their health conditions, management and their use of public health resources.
Study Objectives: The relative risks and benefits of strategies of rate control vs rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) remain to be fully explored.
Design: The How to Treat Chronic Atrial Fibrillation (HOT CAFE) Polish trial was designed to evaluate in a randomized, multicenter, and prospective manner the feasibility and long-term outcomes of rate control vs rhythm control strategies in patients with persistent AF.
Patients: Our study population comprised 205 patients (134 men and 71 women; mean [+/- SD] age, 60.
Background: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) can be managed either by maintaining sinus rhythm using antiarrhythmic drugs and/or electrical cardioversion, or by leaving patients in AF and controlling ventricular rate without attempts to restore sinus rhythm. Which of these two strategies is superior, has not yet been definitively established.
Aim: HOT CAFE Polish Study (How To Treat Chronic Atrial Fibrillation) was designed to evaluate in a randomised, multicentre and prospective manner the risks and advantages of two therapeutical strategies - rate control or rhythm control, in patients with persistent AF.