By Regina Schaffer
An updated guideline on the prevention and management of atrial fibrillation includes a new staging system to emphasize disease progression, along with updated recommendations for catheter ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion.
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By Shawn M. Carter
Patients who receive hemodialysis prior to their first kidney transplant may be more likely to develop atrial fibrillation compared with patients who have peritoneal dialysis, according to recent data.
“Individuals with kidney failure receiving dialysis are at particularly high risk of [atrial fibrillation] AF, where as many as one in three patients receiving hemodialysis had an episode of AF during 6 months of rhythm monitoring using loop recorder devices,” Leonardo Pozo Garcia, MD, from the section of nephrology in the department of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, wrote with colleagues. Read the full story in Healio.
By Regina Schaffer
By Larry R. Jackson II, MD, MHSc
Atrial fibrillation affects 2.7 million to 6.1 million people in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association, and that burden is expected to rise substantially in the coming years.
With AF comes risk for other CV conditions, including a fivefold elevated risk for stroke compared with the general population, yet many people remain undiagnosed and some people are at much higher risk for AF than others. Read the full story in Healio.