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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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Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation using ablation index-guided high-power technique: Frankfurt AI high-power 15-month follow-up.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the midterm clinical results of a new ablation strategy using AI-guided high-power (50 W) ablation (AI-HP) for treating atrial fibrillation.
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Rationale and design of the improving Care for Cardiovascular Disease in China (CCC) project: a national registry to improve management of atrial fibrillation.

TL;DR: The quality improvement initiative includes monthly benchmarked reports on hospital quality, training sessions, regular webinars and recognitions of hospital quality achievement, and generalised estimating equation models will be applied to address intrahospital correlation.
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Review of mobile applications for the detection and management of atrial fibrillation.

TL;DR: The reviewed apps had wide variability in quality, functionality, and adherence to self-management behaviors, and high priority should be given to improving app quality and functionality.
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Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Correlates with the Prognosis of Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

TL;DR: Serum FGF21 levels were associated with the risk factors, severity, and prognosis of DCM, and may serve as a novel biomarker for the prognosis in DCM patients.
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Real World Comparison of Rivaroxaban and Warfarin in Korean Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Propensity Matching Cohort Analysis

TL;DR: In patients with non-valvular AF, rivaroxaban had a similar efficacy to warfarin in Korean real world practice but had better safety and net clinical outcomes compared towarfarin.
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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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