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ESC guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS

Paulus Kirchhof, +3 more
- Vol. 70, Iss: 1, pp 1-84
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The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3603 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Management of atrial fibrillation.

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Screening strategies for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) of screening tests for AF and an economic model to compare the cost-effectiveness of different screening strategies were developed, found systematic opportunistic screening was more likely to be cost-effective than systematic population screening.
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Improved outcomes by integrated care of anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation using the simple ABC (Atrial fibrillation Better Care) pathway

TL;DR: The simple ABC pathway allows the streamlining of integrated care for atrial fibrillation patients in a holistic manner and is associated with a lower risk of adverse outcomes (including mortality, stroke/major bleeding/cardiovascular death, and hospitalization).
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Animal models of arrhythmia: classic electrophysiology to genetically modified large animals

TL;DR: A practical trio of animal models are suggested for future use: mice for genetic investigations, mechanistic evaluations or early studies to identify potential drug targets; rabbits for studies on ion channel function, repolarization or re-entrant arrhythmias; and pigs for preclinical translational studies to validate previous findings.
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Contemporary stroke prevention strategies in 11 096 European patients with atrial fibrillation: a report from the EURObservational Research Programme on Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF) Long-Term General Registry

TL;DR: Age, hypertension, previous ischaemic stroke, symptomatic AF and planned cardioversion or ablation were independent predictors of OAC use, whereas lone AF, previous haemorrhagic events, chronic kidney disease and admission for acute coronary syndrome or non-cardiovascular causes independently predicted OAC non-use.
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2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Giuseppe Mancia, +89 more
TL;DR: In this article, a randomized controlled trial of Aliskiren in the Prevention of Major Cardiovascular Events in Elderly people was presented. But the authors did not discuss the effect of the combination therapy in patients living with systolic hypertension.
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Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment

TL;DR: The TOAST stroke subtype classification system is easy to use and has good interobserver agreement and should allow investigators to report responses to treatment among important subgroups of patients with ischemic stroke.
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Spontaneous Initiation of Atrial Fibrillation by Ectopic Beats Originating in the Pulmonary Veins

TL;DR: The pulmonary veins are an important source of ectopic beats, initiating frequent paroxysms of atrial fibrillation and these foci respond to treatment with radio-frequency ablation.
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