Future Cardiol. 2012;8(5):693-696. The possibility that the CHADS 2 score may be a quick, simple and global, although imprecise, assessment of global cardiovascular risk in AF is an interesting ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) are often used after ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF); the drugs employed vary, but most common are the drugs that were unsuccessful prior to ablation since it ...

22,23 The ROCKET AF trial demonstrated that when rivaroxaban was used in AF patients at moderate to high risk for ... effectiveness of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.

Atrial flutter most commonly occurs in a reentrant circuit around the tricuspid valve — typical atrial flutter or type I. Ablation for this rhythm is easy since it requires only venous access to ...

Atrial fibrillation is the most common chronic ... do not adequately reduce the ventricular rate, and AV nodal ablation with permanent pacemaker implantation is needed. With the development ...