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November 26, 2007European Heart Journal SupplementsOpen Access

The comorbidity of atrial fibrillation and heart failure: a challenge for electrical therapies

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Population

Older patients with comorbid atrial fibrillation and heart failure

Design

Review

Authors

LPLuigi PadelettiPPPaolo PieragnoliVJVolker Jentzen

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Overview

Electrical therapies should not yet change AF-HF practice; leaves open the role of preventive pacing and CRT pending prospective trials.

Structured PICO

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Population
Older patients with comorbid atrial fibrillation and heart failure
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Intervention
Electrical therapies including preventive pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)

This review highlights the challenges and potential of electrical therapies, such as preventive pacing and CRT, in managing patients with comorbid atrial fibrillation and heart failure.

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Padeletti et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a101e214fb650da4ffef87dhttps://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/sum068
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