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This comprehensive review summarizes the epidemiology, mechanisms, clinical manifestations, stroke prevention strategies, and therapies for rate and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation is a highly prevalent arrhythmia with severe consequences, necessitating continued research into its epidemiology, genetics, detection, and treatment.
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Offers clinicians a consolidated AF reference; leaves open avenues for genetic and detection research.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia affecting patients today. Disease prevalence is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide, and is associated with often catastrophic and costly consequences, including heart failure, syncope, dementia, and stroke. Therapies including anticoagulants, anti-arrhythmic medications, devices, and non-pharmacologic procedures in the last 30 years have improved patients' functionality with the disease. Nonetheless, it remains imperative that further research into AF epidemiology, genetics, detection, and treatments continues to push forward rapidly as the worldwide population ages dramatically over the next 20 years.
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Liqun Wu (2014) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. This comprehensive review summarizes the epidemiology, mechanisms, clinical manifestations, stroke prevention strategies, and therapies for rate and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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