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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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2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Piotr Ponikowski* (Chairperson) (Poland), Adriaan A. Voors* (Co-Chair person) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Héctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK)
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2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Franz-Josef Neumann* (ESC Chairperson) (Germany), Miguel Sousa-Uva* (EACTS Chair person) (Portugal), Anders Ahlsson (Sweden), Fernando Alfonso (Spain), Adrian P. Banning (UK), Umberto Benedetto (UK).
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2017 HRS / EHRA / ECAS / APHRS / SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

Hugh Calkins, +60 more
- 01 Oct 2017 - 
TL;DR: This 2017 Consensus Statement is to provide a state-of-the-art review of the field of catheter and surgical ablation of AF and to report the findings of a writing group, convened by these five international societies.
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Surgical treatment of arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart defects.

TL;DR: Intraoperative IRA is a safe and effective procedure to control arrhythmic problems in adults with CHD and should be taken into consideration when transcatheter ablation fails or when elective cardiac surgery is planned.
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Pharmacological rate control of atrial fibrillation

TL;DR: To control ventricular rate in patients with AF, physicians should seek to control heart rate at rest and with exertion, and diltiazem, atenolol, metoprolol, or carvedilol are appropriate choices.
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