Prevalence of unknown atrial fibrillation in patients with risk factors
Open Access
- 20 December 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in EP Europace
- Vol. 15 (5), 657-662
- https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eus366
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. 'Silent', undiagnosed AF is often only detected with the first complication, e.g. a stroke. Detection of 'silent' AF prior to the first cerebrovascular event would be valuable to institute adequate therapy and prevent complications related to AF. We performed a simple electrocardiography (ECG) screening for silent AF in patients at risk for AF.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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