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J Assoc Physicians India
December 2013
The estimated prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in Europe is 4.5 million and in America is 5.1 million.
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May 2013
Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Clinic, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, USA.
Europace
October 2011
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Division of Experimental and Clinical Electrophysiology, Hospital of Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany.
New guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) have recently been published by the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Society (ACCF/AHA/HRS) task force on practice guidelines, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Although they all refer to the same scientific data and agree in the majority of AF management, interpretation, and weighing of study results are quite different in some aspects. While recommendations for stroke risk assessment and prophylaxis are rather conservative in the ESC guidelines, the CCS guideline recommendations are more conservative with regard to lenient rate control and the ACCF/AHA/HRS recommendations are rather strict with regard to rhythm management.
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