Faculty Opinions recommendation of A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation.
- 27 April 2015
- dataset
- Published by H1 Connect
- Vol. 347 (23)
- https://doi.org/10.3410/f.718721728.793506288
Abstract
This large randomized study of atrial fibrillation patients, together with {1}, showed that rate control was equivalent to rhythm control for hard clinical endpoints for the patients who were selected to be enrolled. However, these studies compared rate control to antiarrhythmic drugs, mostly amiodarone, and the toxicity of antiarrhythmic drugs may offset benefits gained from maintaining sinus rhythm {2}. This Recommendation...Keywords
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