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Novel drug therapies for atrial fibrillation

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 28 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01004-2 Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained arrhythmia and imposes a substantial burden on patients and health-care providers.

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Five facts about atrial fibrillation

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a fast and irregular heart rhythm that, left untreated, can lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure. It's the most common type of arrhythmia, a potentially serious condition in which the heart beats too quickly, too slowly or in an irregular pattern.

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Gene-related metabolic dysfunction may be driving heart arrhythmia

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Patients with a common heart arrhythmia called Atrial Fibrillation could benefit from future treatments that target inefficiencies in heart cell metabolism, according to a new article.

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News from EHRA 2024: International Experts Agree on Standards for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

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An international consensus statement on how to treat atrial fibrillation with catheter or surgical ablation has been published in EP Europace, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and was recently presented at EHRA 2024, a scientific congress held April 7-9 in Berlin, Germany.

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Predicting cardiac arrhythmia 30 minutes before it happens

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide with around 59 million people concerned in 2019. Researchers have recently developed a deep-learning model capable of predicting the transition from a normal cardiac rhythm to atrial fibrillation.

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Shorten the Blanking Period After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Experts Say

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Based on continuous monitoring of early recurrence of atrial tachyarrhythmia immediately after patients have undergone atrial fibrillation ablation, Musat et al. However, this reasoning disregards valuable data regarding early arrhythmia recurrences and their potential significance.

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Colchicine Not the Answer for Recurring Arrhythmias After Ablation

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- For patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib), there was no signal that a brief course of colchicine reduced atrial arrhythmia recurrence or improved clinical outcomes when taken for 10 days starting.