Key result
The clinical course of patients with auricular fibrillation without organic heart disease was investigated, but results are not reported in the truncated abstract.
Why the study?
What is the clinical course and prognosis of patients with auricular fibrillation in the absence of organic heart disease?
Observational
What is the clinical course and prognosis of patients with auricular fibrillation in the absence of organic heart disease?
This study investigates the prognosis of lone atrial fibrillation to help physicians distinguish it from atrial fibrillation associated with serious heart disease.
Lone AF prognosis data from this cohort should not yet inform practice; leaves open distinction from AF with organic disease.
From time to time, patients are encountered who display auricular fibrillation, either permanent or intermittent, as the sole evidence of disturbance of the heart. The frequent association of auricular fibrillation with obviously serious heart disease leads many physicians to consider this arrhythmia with gravity at all times and under all circumstances. Orgain and his co-workers1in 1936 called attention to the favorable prognosis associated with cases of uncomplicated or idiopathic auricular fibrillation. It is not our intention to cover the literature in this paper, for this was adequately done by Brill2in 1937. Realizing the importance of acquiring further data on this subject in order to permit the segregation of the significant from the nonsignificant cases of auricular fibrillation, we have reinvestigated this subject with special reference to the clinical course of patients who exhibit auricular fibrillation in the absence of demonstrable evidence of organic heart disease and
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Fredrick A. Willius (1941) conducted an observational in Auricular fibrillation of undetermined origin. Auricular fibrillation without organic heart disease was evaluated on Clinical course and prognosis. The clinical course of patients with auricular fibrillation without organic heart disease was investigated, but results are not reported in the truncated abstract.