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This review outlines the management of atrial fibrillation in the elderly according to Brazilian guidelines, highlighting thromboembolic prevention, rhythm versus rate control, and new treatments.
This review summarizes the management of atrial fibrillation in the elderly according to Brazilian guidelines, highlighting new pharmacological and interventional therapies.
Guides elderly AF care via Brazilian guidelines; leaves open prospective validation of highlighted therapies.
This review discusses atrial fibrillation according to the guidelines of Brazilian Society of Cardiac Arrhythmias and the Brazilian Cardiogeriatrics Guidelines. We stress the thromboembolic burden of atrial fibrillation and discuss how to prevent it as well as the best way to conduct cases of atrial fibrillatios in the elderly, reverting the arrhythmia to sinus rhythm, or the option of heart rate control. The new methods to treat atrial fibrillation, such as radiofrequency ablation, new oral direct thrombin inhibitors and Xa factor inhibitors, as well as new antiarrhythmic drugs, are depicted.
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Roberto et al. (2012) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. This review outlines the management of atrial fibrillation in the elderly according to Brazilian guidelines, highlighting thromboembolic prevention, rhythm versus rate control, and new treatments.
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