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February 28, 2020In a good rythm

Patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure have a worse prognosis, but outcomes can be improved by adequate treatment, including invasive atrial fibrillation therapy (ablation).

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KPKatarzyna Przybylska-SiedleckaWKWiktoria KowalskaMMMichał Mazurek

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Overview

AF common in HF device patients; leaves open optimal rhythm strategies pending randomized data.

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Population
Patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation
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Intervention
Atrial fibrillation management strategies including rate control, rhythm control, and catheter ablation

Atrial fibrillation worsens prognosis in heart failure patients, but recent evidence and guidelines support AF ablation to reduce mortality and hospitalizations in symptomatic patients with HFrEF.

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Przybylska-Siedlecka et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f6d5635aa2c282ce0ca06https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.0498
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