A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with recurrent persistent atrial fibrillation

By I. C. Gelder, V. Hagens, H. Bosker. 2003

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation-executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committ (2006, neutral): “Neither the AFFIRM (132), RACE (124), PIAF (Pharmacologic Intervention in Atrial Fibrillation) (125), nor STAF (Strategies of Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation) (126) studies found differences in quality of life with rhythm control compared with rate control.”
• Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation: the Task Force for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). (2010, background): “rhythm’ trials on the other hand.(86,87,90) The outcome of the ATHENA (A placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel arm Trial to assess the efficacy of dronedarone”
• 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, background): “During the past 15 years, multiple studies have investigated the impact of rate vs rhythm control on stroke risk and mortality.(52,53,54,55)”
• Atrial fibrillation management: a prospective survey in ESC member countries: the Euro Heart Survey on Atrial Fibrillation. (2005, neutral): “Diagnostics TTE 757 (78) 1275 (84) 1025 (88) 1332 (87) Chest X-ray 803 (82) 1155 (77) 923 (80) 1321 (86) Holter monitoring 135 (14) 549 (36) 323 (28) 511 (31) Exercise test 126 (13) 442 (29) 234 (20) 263 (17) TEE 114 (12) 173 (11) 227 (20) 166 (11) Electrophysiology 14 (1) 143 (10) 81 (7) 66 (4) Eve”