Referência:
📖 Alboni P, aborto GL, Baldi N, Luzi M, Russo V et al. Outpatient treatment of recent-onset atrial fibrillation with the “Pill-in-the-Pochet” approach. N England J Med 2004; 351:2384-2391
⚡️Importante: Deve ser administrado 30 minutos antes da propafenona um betabloqueador ou bloqueador do canal de cálcio. O objetivo é para evitar que o paciente evolua com flutter atrial com resposta ventricular rápida (menos de 1% dos casos)
Stroke risk is clearly not binary in AF. Symptoms and duration of AF are likely to play a role. Stroke prevention studies were done on people having AF long enough / frequent / symptomatic enough for it to be caught on ECG / Holter.
LOOP Study presented at #ESCCongress. Using ILR to detect AF. Study did not meet its primary endpoint. Like with CRYSTAL-AF, lots of AF detected via ILR, but treating this did not translate to reduced stroke / embolic risk.
Summary discussant slide from I van Gelder
Ablation + CRT was superior to pharmacological therapy in reducing mortality in patients with permanent AF and narrow QRS who were hospitalized for HF, irrespective of their baseline EF according to this study by Brignole et. al.
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