Key result
Evolving medical and invasive therapies expand AF management options but demand careful patient selection.
Why the study?
Atrial fibrillation remains the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia with ongoing developments in stroke prevention, rate control, and rhythm maintenance.
Emphasizes individualized AF therapy selection amid new options; leaves open optimal criteria for contemporary NOAC and ablation use.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. It places an enormous burden on the patients, caregivers, and the society at large. While the main themes in the care of an AF patient have not changed over the years and continue to focus on stroke prevention, control of the ventricular, rate and rhythm maintenance, there have been a number of new developments in each of these realms. This paper will discuss the "hot" topics in AF in 2012 including new and upcoming medical and invasive management strategies for this condition.
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Khaykin et al. (2012) conducted a review in Atrial Fibrillation. Medical and invasive management strategies was evaluated.
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