The European Society of Cardiology issued new guidelines for management of Atrial Fibrillation at the ESC 2010. The guidelines were issued after a gap of 4 years.
The guidelines have been compiled under various headings-Preamble, Introduction, Detection, Natural history and acute management, management and specific populations.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, occurring in 1–2% of the general population. Over 6 million Europeans suffer from this arrhythmia, and its prevalence is estimated to at least double in the next 50 years as the population ages.
AF confers a 5-fold risk of stroke, and one in five of all strokes is attributed to this arrhythmia. Ischaemic strokes in association with AF are often fatal, and those patients who survive .
Full text of the guidelines are available at:
http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/08/28/eurheartj.ehq278.long
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