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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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Modeling patients' time, travel, and monitoring costs in anticoagulation management : Societal savings achievable with the shift from warfarin to direct oral anticoagulants

TL;DR: A georeferenced cost model is designed to investigate societal savings achievable with the shift from warfarin to DOACs in the study region of North Karelia in Eastern Finland and indicates that patients’ time and travel costs critically increase the societal cost of warfarIn therapy; and despite the higher price ofDOACs, they are already cost-efficient alternatives to warfar in anticoagulation management.
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Clinical significance of atrial high-rate episodes for thromboembolic events in Japanese population.

TL;DR: AHREs detected by pacemaker were associated with ischaemic stroke/SE in the Japanese population, however, this association was observed only in the high thromboembolic risk group.
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Resolving the Ionotropic P2X4 Receptor Mystery Points Towards a New Therapeutic Target for Cardiovascular Diseases.

TL;DR: The state of the art of the P2x4R activity in the cardiovascular system is provided and the role of P2X4R activation in kidney and lungs vis a vis their interplay to control cardiovascular functions and dysfunctions is discussed.
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The Efficacy and Safety of the WATCHMAN Device in LAA Occlusion in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Contraindicated to Oral Anticoagulation: A Focused Review

TL;DR: After reviewing a significant body of literature, a world experience with no randomized trials, it is suggested that Watchman device implantation is effective and safe in high-risk patients with NVAF contraindicated to OACs therapy.
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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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